'Burning Six' Media Dishonesty (Are You Surprised?)

Unfortunately the "Burning Six" story that the MSM appears to have fabricated (originally ripped a new one by Curt at Flopping Aces) is one of those stories I waited too long to report on. So much info has been uncovered that I couldn't do it justice. Be sure to read Mary Katherine Ham's take on it:

The AP reported that six Sunnis were burned alive by Shiites while leaving a mosque Friday. AP used Capt. Jamil Hussein of the Iraqi Police Force as its sole named source of the account in the original story. The U.S. military and Iraqi soldiers couldn't confirm the event. It turned out, according to CENTCOM, that Hussein was never an Iraqi police officer nor a bona fide spokesperson for the Iraqi police, but the AP's been using him as a source for months, perhaps years. Yesterday, CENTCOM asked for a correction on the story, based on the new information about Hussein.

It's a huge post, read the whole thing. Also, Malkin does a good job summing it up, with some documented dishonesty from Yahoo.