The Benghazi Massacre

[Cartoonist]

Yahoo had a link to this site on their home page.
http://www.examiner.com/article/sen-schumer-emerges-as-surprise-key-player-benghazi-scandal

This is the first time I have seen the word massacre applied to Benghazi. I think that's stooping pretty low. I've never heard of this site before. At the surface it looks like a wingnut site. I left after a few seconds.

[Capt. Obvious]

1. Examiner.com eh?

It's no OpEdNews.com.

[maddezmom]

2. Interesting blog the author has there

http://thelibertysphere.blogspot.com

[Cartoonist]

3. I went there

I checked out a link. Here's some wisdom from it:
"A warmer world is a better world. Look at weather-related death rates in winter and in summer, and the case is overwhelming that warmer is better."
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OK then, let's all stop worrying.

[The Straight Story]

4. The RW is riding those 4 bodies on a tidal wave of ignorance and hate for profit

They don't care about them or their families. They never did.

[Shrike47]

5. Not only was it a massacre; there's something suspicious about Schumer going to the White House!

Does the author think the Prez and Schumer were conspiring to let the Ambassador be massacred?

[pinboy3niner]

6. It's posted in their Republican forum (they also have a Democratic forum)

The site is largely amateur-written blog posts with some reporting by professional reporters. From the wiki page about the site:

Examiner.com is a media company based in Denver, Colorado, that operates a network of local news websites, allowing "pro–am contributors" to share their city-based knowledge on a blog-like platform, in 238 markets throughout the United States and parts of Canada with two national editions, one for each country.

Examiner.com is a division of Clarity Media Group, of The Anschutz Corporation which is primarily owned by Philip Anschutz.

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Criticism

Matt Smith of the San Francisco Weekly noted in 2007 that numerous articles and photos by Sharon Gray were from other sources, including the Sacramento Bee, and constituted apparent plagiarism. Smith suggested that the case showed that "free isn't always a bargain." When questioned, Jim Pimental, executive editor of Examiner said,

"They're blogs. They don't get edited. We don't give any direction to people on what to write in their blogs. And that's standard operating procedure."

After Smith brought the issue to Pimentel's attention, the voluminous Gray material was removed from Examiner.com. Pimentel said the Examiner has "a less-strict standard for accuracy and attribution in stories that appear on the Web" than for publications in print. According to Smith, Robert Gunnison, director of school affairs at the U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, shares his own view that newspapers "should observe the same journalism standards online as they do in print."

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examiner.com