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May 17, 2005
More On News-Weak's Faux Pax "FooPah"
Topics: Blogger Round-upNewsWeek's follies continue to dance - and the score is still being written, mostly by bloggers:
Trey Jackson posts that Col. Oliver North, reporting from Iraq, was on Hannity and Colmes and was asked about the News-Weak scandal. North: "Newsweek is not doing them [troops] any favors." It's the troops who are most affected by this type of false
reporting. We may get angry at home about these things, but our troops
are putting their lives on the line everyday so News-Weak can undermine
their efforts and put them in harm's way. He has the VIDEO. While at Jackson's Junction, Trey suggests that amidst all the talk about Newsweak, let's not forget what Howard Dean said about Tom Delay - watch the video ....
The NY Times reports that we hear, "Islam is under attack in the name of the war on terror," from Pakistan, and there's more.
On the side, Ace of spades offers this just to infuriate you: Arab journalists lecture on how ignorant we all are, and how racist, etc.
New Sisyphus asks, "What do the New York Times, the British Broadcasting Corporation, CNN, CBS News and, now, Newsweek have in common?" (via Jawa Report)
Wizbang has "Newsweeks Hail Mary." (via Jack Lewis.net)
Michelle Malkin posts that News-Weak is supporting Kerry, but not our troops. She mentions the cozy arrangement between Kerry and Newsweek, and provides other interesting repercussions of Newsweek's attack on sanity and restraint in a time of war such as "Veteran journalist Mark Tapscott weighs in," "Pakistan wants a probe of the now-retracted allegations of Koran desecration," with:
For whatever reason, it appears Newsweek's reporters and editors forgot Journalism 101's First Rule: If you don't have two independently verifiable sources for a serious allegation the publication of which could seriously damage or destroy an individual's reputation, put somebody in of physical danger or place public safety at risk, don't publish it.
Michelle continues with "Ben Johnson at Front Page Magazine writes about Newsweek's victims," "Paul Marshall at NRO - Deadly mistake," "Ace of Spades renames Newsweek "Al-Newsweek,"" and "Jeff Harrell designs the cover you won't see," which is a MUST see and something deserving of more blogging.
Michelle also offers this from the AP:
Newsweek magazine, under fire for publishing a story that led to deadly protests in Afghanistan, said Monday it was retracting its report that a military probe had found evidence of desecration of the Quran by U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay.
Earlier Monday, Bush administration officials had brushed off an apology that Newsweek's editor Mark Whitaker had made in an editor's note and criticized the magazine's handling of the story.
"It's appalling that this story got out there," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said as she traveled home from Iraq.
"People lost their lives. People are dead," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said. "People need to be very careful about what they say, just as they need to be careful about what they do."
Following the criticism, Whitaker released a statement through a spokesman later Monday saying the magazine was retracting the article.
"Based on what we know now, we are retracting our original story that an internal military investigation had uncovered Quran abuse at Guantanamo Bay," Whitaker said.
Myopic Zeal writes that "Newsweek Gets Swarmed," and don't forget to read about Newsweek's cupability.
Posted by Hyscience at May 17, 2005 9:18 AM
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