NP Davemarcfile

[David Morris]

As davemarc notes, I prefaced my earlier Debka post with "FWIW," and in this
last post I added "(Unconfirmed)" in the subject line.  So Doug's criticism is
not only hypocritical, it is also out of line.  But I did appreciate the
Reuters rebuttal, which I forwarded to Debka, and got this response:

Iraqi Dep. Prime Minister Tareq Aziz earlier claimed by Kurds to have
defected turned up in Baghdad Wednesday night.
At a news conference, he denied widespread reports he had fled or been shot.
DEBKfile reports: Foreign correspondents who called his office during the
news conference were told Aziz was on vacation outside Baghdad. No
independent correspondents were allowed to view him live. They were barred
admission to conference, Iraqi officials admitting only trusted Gulf
reporters

DM

--- davemarc <davemarc at panix.com> wrote:
> davemarc notes:
> 
> Doug "pynchonoid" Millison seems to have been the subscriber who introduced
> Debka to this list himself last July, offering a link without any
> contextualizing:
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0207&msg=68424&keywords=debka
> 
> On October 8, "Jasper Fidget" reintroduced Debka, writing "Here's a site
> likely to scare the shit out of you: http://www.debka.com/ .
> They have a pretty obvious and rather undisguised agenda, and much of what
> they report is way over the top, but--and here's the scary part really--much
> of what they've reported in the past--well before the mainstreams--has
> proven true.  Here's an article about them:
> http://www.observer.com/pages/story.asp?ID=4905 ...."
> 
> On October 12, pynchonoid offered another Debka report, this time noting,
> "Latest reports from Debkafile on the US war in Iraq --
>  Debkafile has reported some legitimate scoops in the past but you never
> know, your mileage may vary."
> 
> On October 19, pynchonoid offered another Debka report, on this occasion
> noting, "Debka.com has been accused of being no more than a
> mouthpiece for Israeli intelligence, but they have published stories in the
> past year that have turned out to be 'true', whatever that might mean in
> this age of spin and propaganda, stories that have been corroborated by
> mainstream press organs at least. Your mileage may vary."
> 
> On December 5, David Morris offered a Debka report, prefaced by a "FWIW."
> 
> On January 10, pynchonoid offered another Debka report, excerpted with a
> cheery "enjoy!"
> 
> So it appears to me that pynchonoid has offered more Debka "scoops" than
> anyone on the list, that the type of criticism that pynchonoid directed at
> Morris could just as well be applied to pynchonoid himself, and--most
> importantly--that pynchonoid and Morris have yet another thing in common
> besides their passion for Pynchon.
> 
> Lesson to be learned?  Practice good Netiquette--it's the decent thing to
> do.
> 
> This has been another public service announcement from d.
> 
> 
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