The Associated Press (AP) Makes Up Iraqi Atrocity Stories

Update: 12/4/06 - Michelle Malkin again updates the story.  It remains very much alive, in fact more alive than ever, as the AP and New York Times continue to keep their heads in the sand.  The longer the failure to provide appropriate documentation for the story, the greater the AP's loss of credibility.  - Further update - Fox news' interview with Jules Crittenden can be found here.

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Jules Crittenden, the Boston Herald City Editor, reports

. . .  The Associated Press is embroiled in a scandal. Conservative bloggers, the new media watchdogs, lifted a rock at the AP.   Curt at Floppingaces, www.floppingaces2.blogspot.com, led the charge. He  thought there was something strange about an AP report, and took a second look at it, then a third look. He and others blew the lid off it. The AP is making up war crimes. But the resulting stink

in the blogosphere has barely wrinkled a nose in the mainstream press.   [Read the article for details]
 
  .  .  .  The AP, of course, has been delivering unbalanced reports about U.S. national politics for some time, as when President Bush, whom AP reporters despise, is barely allowed to state his case on an issue before his critics are given twice as much space to pummel him. The AP, once a just-the-facts news delivery service, has lost its rudder. It has become a partisan, anti-American news agency that seeks to undercut a wartime president and American soldiers in the field. It is providing fraudulent, shoddy goods. It doesn’t even recognize it has a problem.   (HT: Jonah Goldberg at the Corner)

Michelle Malkin has been on the story for a long time.