On Monday Leila Fadel and Mohammed al Dulaimy authored a dramatic story about gunmen who burst into a journalist's home and murdered 11 family members, including 7 children. The article was titled, "11 dead in Baghdad mass slaying, showing fragility of gains there.' You can read it here. The Yahoo version is here.
Since then, the mass slaying has been exposed as a fabrication. Reporters without Borders has condemned the journalist who fabricated the story. Bloggers are compiling the evidence.
So why is McClatchy still running the bogus story on McClatchy's Iraq web page? And why is the "mass slaying" still listed in the "round-up of daily violence" from Monday?
