Newsweek lied, people died

Blogs all over Newsweek's gaffe that caused riots...

As LGF notes, the Alquada manual teaches that if retained, to claim all sorts of torture...so Newsweek and other media sources should take any claims like this with a grain of salt.

And Blogfather muses that common sense would make them realize it would be impossible to flush such a large book...(heck, it's even hard to flush regular newspaper pages, which is why third world countries have trash cans next to toilets, for the newspaper that is used in place of Charmin)..

But Austin Bay has the best analysis here....
The sin of greed always seems to creep into every scandal and it’s certainly lurking in this tragic incident.
Newsweek wants market share, and a scoop grabs readers. But profit generated by a frantic “me first” quest isn’t the only motive. The “Vietnam-Watergate” motive’s also in play.

That’s a tired and dirty game but for three decades it’s been a successful ploy for the New York-Washington-LA media axis. It’s rules are simple. Presume the government is lying– always make that presumption, particularly when the president is a Republican. Presume the worst about the US military– always make that presumption, even when the president is a Democrat. Add multi-cultural icing– the complaints and allegations of “Third World victims” are given revered status, the statements of US and US-allied nations met with cynical doubt and arrogant contempt.

And in a time of war, one wonders about a newspaper that hands the enemy a propaganda bonanza...especially when the newspapers merely shrugged (and barely reported) when one of Christianity's holiest shrines was desecrated by Muslim extremists...remember that? Probably not....it was barely covered by the secular media who were rightly afraid it might inflame "islamophobia"...

One wonders is 50 years from now, the press' reporting will come off as corrupt as Mr. Duranty's reports from Mother Russia...

Jason Blair, call your office...