By: Wayne Robins Site Questioned AP's No Gun Ri Story
A new Web venture that owns a venerable news name has hit the ground running
by being among the first to question the sources for The Associated Press' Pulitzer
Prize-winning series about Korean War crimes by American soldiers.
An article posted at Stripes.com on May 10 said that two former G.I.'s who
provided eyewitness accounts to the AP were not in the area of No Gun Ri at the
time of the shooting. A similar investigation by
U.S. News and World Report was also published last week. It showed
similar discrepancies, which resulted in The New York Times giving the story front
page play on Saturday. The AP has defended its reporting.
The Stars and Stripes story was written
by Ed Offley, a veteran military writer who spent 13 years with the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer before joining The Stars and
Stripes as its Washington bureau chief.
The name Stars and Stripes was acquired earlier this spring from the
National Tribune Corp., which had published the domestic military newspaper
sporadically since the Civil War. Purchase of the name recently generated some
controversy since it is not related to the European and Pacific Stars and
Stripes, the newspapers published by the government for American
servicemen overseas.
The URL www.stripes.com is now the
domestic edition of The Stars and Stripes, and is owned by Pittsburgh-
based Stars and Stripes Omnimedia Inc., a company that as recently as last week
went by the name iServed.com. The principals behind the startup are a
combination of Navy veterans and business school graduates who raised money
for their site the new-fashioned way - from the Silicon Valley venture capital firm
Redleaf. They call the new company a 'multimedia military content and solutions
provider.'
Related story:
DAILY 'STARS AND STRIPES' NEWSPAPER WASN'T SOLD
(05/09/00)
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