Man, reality seems fucked without the newspeak filter.

In January of 2007, the online magazine Insight, a sister publication of The Washington Times, published an unsourced article reporting a rumor that "researchers connected to Senator [Hillary] Clinton" had discovered that rival candidate Barack Obama was educated in a radical Islamic Madrassa school during his youth in Indonesia.^[1].

To investigate this statement, which was quickly propagated in the United States mass media, including on Fox News, CNN reporter John Vause visited the school and found its staff in Western attire, its student body apparently consisting of Muslims, "Christians, Buddhists, also Confucian(s)".^[2] The CNN story also quoted a spokesperson for Clinton, who dismissed the allegation as "an obvious right-wing hit job" on both candidates. Insight responded that CNN's investigation did "not satisfy our standards for aggressive investigative reporting", and said that they provided "political intelligence" on "a limited budget".^[3].

A January 29 New York Times story commented on the Insight story. The article notes:

Insight editor Jeffrey T. Kuhner "whose Web site published the first anonymous smear of the 2008 presidential race, is hardly the only editor who will not reveal his reporters’ sources. What sets him apart is that he will not even disclose the names of his reporters."

In the article, Kuhner says that the article is "solid as solid can be" ^[4]. The Fox News Channel has since acknowledged that the story violates their basic rule of knowing "what you are talking about." John Moody, vice president for news at Fox, also included this in his daily editorial note on January 23: "For the record: seeing an item on a website does not mean it is right. Nor does it mean it is ready for air on FNC. The urgent queue is our way of communicating information that is air-worthy. Please adhere to this."^[5].
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insight_magazine_%22madrassa%22_media_controversy