{"id":26307,"date":"2011-08-26T17:11:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T21:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26307"},"modified":"2011-08-26T17:11:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T21:11:02","slug":"another-phony-soldier-and-another-phony-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26307","title":{"rendered":"Another phony soldier and another phony journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Average NCO sends us a link to an article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andalusiastarnews.com\/2011\/08\/19\/star-news-retracts-moore-story\/\">Andalusia Star-News<\/a> in which they admit their error in publishing an article about Cliff Moore, another phony Special Forces soldier;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Star-News story on Sat., Aug. 13, stated that Andalusia native Cliff Moore is a member of the U.S. Army special forces had received both the Distinguished Cross and Purple Heart. We confirmed today that The Star-News and others were misled by Moore, his claims, and his photograph.<\/p>\n<p>MSG Eric A. Hendrix, chief of media relations for the U.S.Army Special Operations Command at Ft. Bragg, released the following statement on Friday:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. Army Special Operations Command has no record of an award of the DSC to any Soldier on August 1, 2011, and no indication that Cliff Moore is actively serving within the command, including at 3rd Special Forces Group as is portrayed in the photo which appeared in [The Andalusia Star-News].\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So another journalist practices &#8220;reverse research&#8221; &#8211; verifying her story after it&#8217;s been published. I can&#8217;t find the original story, but I&#8217;d sure love to read it if someone finds it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Average NCO sends us a link to an article from the Andalusia Star-News in which they &hellip; <a title=\"Another phony soldier and another phony journalist\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26307\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another phony soldier and another phony journalist<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}