Snawk - Powerline notes the

Snawk - Powerline notes the Beeb's comments about the Jessica Lynch story.

Here's the amazing part:

Publisher Alfred A Knopf signed a $1m deal for Private Lynch's account of her ordeal, entitled I Am a Soldier, Too, The Jessica Lynch Story.

Praised as a heroine by many, others denounced her rescue as a staged event used by Pentagon officials as a propaganda exercise.

As Powerline notes - reprising something the entire blogosphere brought up last spring - the only "denouncing" was done by the BBC itself - in stories that have been fairly soundly ravaged ever since.

Now, in a story entitled "Jessica Lynch 'raped' in Iraq" - note the scare quote - someone tell me why this next graf is included at all?

Rick Bragg, who wrote the book, is also no stranger to controversy. He recently resigned from the New York Times newspaper after allegations his stories relied too heavily on the work of a freelance journalist.

Counterspin? The Beeb is trying to find a chink in Lynch's story to try to draw attention away from their own malfeasance?

Posted by Mitch at November 7, 2003 06:14 AM