FC: Monkeyfishing.com launches to keep Slate.com and the media honest

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Original Slate article on "monkeyfishing":
http://slate.msn.com/vice/01-06-07/vice.asp
Retraction:
http://slate.msn.com/slatefare/01-06-25/slatefare.asp
WSJ summary:
http://opinionjournal.com/columnists/jtaranto/?id=95000714

-Declan

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http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,44939,00.html

Ever hear of monkeyfishing?

Jay Forman wrote about this purported sport in a Slate article on June 7, 
saying that somewhat-sadistic fishermen in Florida entertained themselves 
by using apples on hooks to catch rhesus monkeys.

After Inside.com and The New York Times questioned the truthfulness of 
Forman's account, an embarrassed Michael Kinsey retracted the article and 
apologized to his readers on June 25.

Now the term's been expropriated by a merry band of D.C. muckrakers for a 
new website, monkeyfishing.com, which they plan to use to keep the media 
honest.

"A lot of it is going to be straight commentary from a libertarian 
perspective," says Jerry Brito, the site's cofounder. Brito works at the 
Cato Institute during the day and he previously founded now-defunct 
Liberzine.com.

Says Brito: "Hopefully if this becomes a little more popular, people can 
start sending us stories they find along the way."




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