NEW OLD NEWS

James Joyner | Wednesday, April 30, 2003

A phenomenon I started to notice a lot during the war, when I was doing a lot of posting on Command Post, was that a lot of the wire services posted as “new” stories that were sometimes several hours old but with maybe a sentence or two changed. This one is a classic example: Pakistan Captures Key al-Qaida Suspect, which I noticed on PoliBlogger dated a couple hours ago, is stamped “8 minutes ago” on AP/Yahoo!News. That’s rather misleading.

The news here is pretty good, though: The guy we think was behind the attack on the USS Cole is the captee.

About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.

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