HBO's Belated & Weak Retraction: Baby Killing a PR Hoax

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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 resurfaced in HBO's December docudrama, "Live from Baghdad" and was subsequently repeated as fact in the Washington Post.