HBO's Belated & Weak Retraction: Baby Killing a PR Hoax [1]
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton [2] on
HBO Films has finally gotten around to admitting what PR Watch readers knew all along: "allegations of Iraqi soldiers taking babies from incubators (in 1990) ... were never substantiated." This fabrication by the Hill & Knowlton PR firm [3] resurfaced in HBO's December docudrama, "Live from Baghdad [4]" and was subsequently repeated as fact in the Washington Post [5].