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Wag the dog?. The alleged truth about how Private Jessica Lynch was saved.
This is a pretty amazing story, coming originally from the BBC and now a front page story on the Guardian. There's a program on it on BBC on Sunday.

Story courtesy of Karlin Lillington, where I picked it up. [MetaFilter]

oh yes, this is nothing new, the social construction of facts and their provision to a certain audience for certain effects, which in this case actually seemed to work, i wonder how far this story will be distributed though?