Heads Up: Bogus "News" Source - The World Tribune

[Stephanie]

Looks like the BFEE has a new disinfo outlet:

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?030908ta_talk_mcgrath

THIS JUST IN DEPT.
FIT TO PRINT?
Issue of 2003-09-08
Posted 2003-09-01

Aficionados of the Drudge Report may have noticed several striking headlines recently linking to stories from the World Tribune, an enterprise with a title as grand and ambitious as it is unfamiliar. One such story last week began, “U.S. intelligence suspects Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction have finally been located.” The apparent scoop—of stop-the-presses significance—was unsigned, and billed as a “special to World Tribune.com.” The Times, the Journal, and the Washington Post, meanwhile, not only got beat but failed even to acknowledge the news in the days that followed. What gives?

Not everyone ignored it: Rush Limbaugh, for instance. “There’s a piece in the World Tribune today—one of the papers in the United Kingdom—exactly as theorized on this program early on,” he said on his radio show. “It’s unconfirmed, but it’s a story that many of the weapons of mass destruction are at present buried in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon.” Fox News, catering to a similar demographic, enlisted a military analyst that evening to discuss potential ramifications—military intervention in Lebanon?—on “The O’Reilly Factor.” According to the story, the weapons were probably delivered to the Bekaa Valley, a Hezbollah stronghold, in a caravan of tractor-trailers that was spotted leaving Iraq in January, two months before the war began, as part of a multimillion- dollar storage deal between Saddam Hussein and the Syrian government.

In fact, the World Tribune is not published in the United Kingdom, nor is it, to be precise, a newspaper. It is a Web site produced, more or less as a hobby, in Falls Church, Virginia, and is dedicated to the notion, as its mission statement explains, that “there is a market for news of the world and not just news of the weird.” (Nonetheless, the site includes a prominent feature, Cosmic Tribune, with an extraterrestrial focus, and it links to a Mafia journal called Gang Land News.) Its editor and publisher, Robert Morton, is an assistant managing editor at the Washington Times and a former “corporate editor” for News World Communications, the Times’ owner and the publishing arm of the Unification Church, led by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. (Morton and his wife, Choon Boon, are themselves followers of the Reverend Moon.) Among the World Tribune’s other recent half-ignored scoops are that Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for last month’s blackout and that a North Korean defector stressed, during a meeting in July with White House officials, the need for a preëmptive military strike against Kim Jong Il.<more>

[radwriter0555]

1. WOW thank you! EXCELLENT WORK!

by GUM that's OUTSTANDING info.

thank you so much for that....

[legin]

2. thanks Stephanie

that's a great story.

[teknomanzer]

3. Maybe...

I can make sh*t up and call myself a journalist. I AM looking for a better line of work.

[Stephanie]

5. Why not?

Hell, you'd be more of a journalist making stuff up than most of the journalists we've got already who don't report anything.

This is MOONIE stuff. It's really scary. And look at the stories below where the site is QUOTED as if it were legit.

[Stephanie]

4. Here's the site

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/

And check out all these references to it:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&edition=us&q=%22world+tribune%22

UPI NewsTrack TopNews
Washington Times, DC - 12 hours ago
... RAMALLAH, Gaza, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has begun preparations to enter exile, the World Tribune reported Thursday. ...


Abbas reportedly ready to leave
Washington Times, DC - 12 hours ago
RAMALLAH, Gaza, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has begun preparations to enter exile, the World Tribune reported Thursday. ...


Microsoft working with the feds; Virus attacks may be terrorism
Michnews.com - Aug 21, 2003
By WORLD TRIBUNE.COM. WORLDTRIBUNE.COM -- Evidence gathered by Microsoft, the FBI, and the Secret Service on the worldwide attacks ...


Israel's Nuclear Power Laid Bare for the First Time
Turks.US - Aug 30, 2003
The 'World Tribune' news website reported that the topic, 'Israeli Nuclear Capabilities and Threats' would be on the agenda at the IAEA's major conference. ...


Iraq ’ s Freedom Fighters
American Daily, OH - Aug 23, 2003
... The US is training the new militia, according to the WORLD TRIBUNE. The first battalion will begin instruction shortly, according to Lt. Gen. ...


Sitting on Evidence of Saddam's WMDs, Al Qaeda Ties
RushLimbaugh.com - Aug 26, 2003
... There's a piece in the World Tribune today - one of the papers in the United Kingdom - exactly as theorized on this program early on. ...


News Nuggets
SierraTimes.com - Aug 20, 2003
... believe the same insane lies. They're wrong. (Source: World Tribune,
8/18/2003) <082003-3>. HOMOPHOBE! HOMOPHOBE! The gay rights lobby ...


Microsoft working with Feds; virus attacks may be terrorism
World Tribune - Aug 21, 2003
Evidence gathered by Microsoft, the FBI, and the Secret Service will be released linking the worldwide attacks made against computers running the Windows ...


The Palestinian Roadmap to War
TooGoodReports.com - Aug 12, 2003
... As the World Tribune recently reported, the Palestinians have been threatening to suspend the ceasefire, claiming numerous Israeli violations, but people whose ...

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. No staff. Well-placed informants.

And an

...increase in observed U.F.O. activity as Mars <has> neared.


:wtf: lol

[Stephanie]

7. Yet good enough to be quoted by Limbo and Drudge

How many more of these are out there?

[newyawker99]

8. kick

[blm]

9. Moon has front newsgroups all over the world.

Google The Moon Primer. It has the greatest amount of Moon info links that I've seen in one place.