Newsweek With its Hands in the Cookie Jar
Published May 17, 2005
Remember growing up and trusting the news? It didn't matter if it was CNN or ABC, you knew that they did their best to check out the facts and report them accurately. Today, it seems like you can't go a month without some news station admitting to making up stories or putting out lies as facts. Is this what we can expect from the once noble press? The ones charged with keeping the world honest but can't stop lying themselves?
If you don't like Bush, it does not give you the right to make up documents about him being AWOL. If you don't like the US being in Iraq, it doesn't give you the right to lie about POWs and their treatment to try to turn the world against the effort. Being a journalist is not about changing people's minds to your ideology. It's simply about reporting what happened.
It is time for the men and women of the news industry to step back and remember that the news should always be about facts; not spin or personal feelings.
- Newsweek With its Hands in the Cookie Jar
- Published: May 17, 2005
- Type: Opinion
- Section: Politics
- Writer: timeline
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"liberal media"
Thad,
refer to post "Amusing ourselves to death...for SURE"
With the exception of a few examples like this Newsweek example, in which riots and deaths resulted from an erroneous story, the criticism of the Bush administrations' handling of interrogations is based on real facts.
To paraphrase Billy Joel, Newsweek didn't start the fire. If neocons start reading up on the Abu Ghraib scandal they've been ignoring, maybe the magazine's tragic mistake will have a silver lining.
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"If you don't like the US being in Iraq, it doesn't give you the right to lie about POWs and their treatment to try to turn the world against the effort."
Please read the Fay report (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nationi/documents/fay_report_8-25-04.pdf) and Schlesinger report (http://news.findlaw.com/wp/docs/dod/abughraibrpt.pdf) for facts about Abu Ghraib. Both of these reports were commissioned by the DoD, and not some conspiracy by the "liberal media."