NO NO GUN RI?:

No Gun Ri: 'Massacre,' Media and Conflicts of Interest (Dave Eberhart, Jan. 4, 2003, NewsMax.com)

Ever since a group of Associated Press reporters shared the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for the story about an alleged wholesale U.S. massacre of civilians in the opening weeks of the Korean War, questions have festered about what really happened under that railway bridge at No Gun Ri, South Korea. But the latest skirmish in the perennial battle is being fought over whether the coveted prize should be returned.

Although the AP's version, describing hundreds of gun-downed and strafed-from-the air refugees, came under challenge early (from U.S. News and World Report and Stripes.com), the biggest chink in the award-winning account appeared when the key AP source, a former soldier who claimed to have witnessed the debacle firsthand, was shown up as a fraud who was not even in the worn-torn country.

While the AP team understandably dropped the fraud's chilling and bloody account from a later book on the same subject, they have shrugged off suggestions that the whole story has been impeached, suggesting that the liar's tale was but a portion of the mosaic of a tale they stand by.

The book they produced out of this was so one-sided that it's hard not to question their motives. Posted by Orrin Judd at January 6, 2003 9:44 PM