But, Scott Said . . .
The recent hub bub in the news concerning Newsweek is annoying. Newsweek published a piece that alluded to interogators at Abu Grhab and Guatanamo using the desecration of the Koran as a trick employed to get prisoners to give up the goods on terror. It isn't new news. In fact the same information has been printed before, appearing in the Washington Post and a even the Denver Post. But the White House has decided to tie the whole Newsweek piece to recent violence in Afghanistan, despite the Pentagon's statement's that say otherwise. The White House, it is believed, is using the Prison/Koran story to shame Newsweek and its strong investigative journalist, Michael Isokoff. It is using shame to censor and misses the irony of the whole mess. When the White House lectures that telling mis truths about events in Iraq will lead to people dying, they seem to have avoided the mirror when they spoke. I think that the American public can see this for what it is, however if Dems take the bait this will become another Rathergate and Newsweek will lose all credibility, which is a shame. CNN, which is owned by the same company that owns Newsweek's chief competitor, Time, is a jumping all over it. And once your realize it is "Time" making fun of Newsweek on Time's own news channel, the whole affair looks silly. Time/CNN covers it to death, so to keep up, MSNBC and Fox get in the game and before you know it, a non story becomes the entire news cycle.
posted by majikwah @ 5/17/2005 09:00:00 AM
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