The latest mainstream media scandal flourishes as Newsweek retracts story alleging American Guantanamo Koran abuse - Michael Jackson nowhere in sight. Various views:

The Newsweek Debacle and Religious Ignorance
By now, everyone has heard about the Newsweek story that claimed that some of the U.S. interrogators at Gitmo flushed a Koran down the toilet in order to rattle their detainees. When this story broke internationally, there were anti-American riots...
Posted to Culture by Scott Stiegemeyer on May 21, 2005 05:23 PM

Friedman hits nail on head with Koran reaction
Thomas Friedman hit the nail on the head with his piece today in the New York Times. We are spending way too much time debating with ourselves, or playing defense, and way too little time actually looking Arab...
Posted to Politics by V. Ko on May 20, 2005 11:32 AM

Newsweek: Breach of journalism ethics, or government scapegoat?
Do you remember high school, when the popular and all-powerful jocks would make the lowly geeks do their dirty work?
Posted to Politics by Chelsea Lou on May 20, 2005 12:09 AM

Newsweek not responsible for Muslim pathology
Oh boy, was I ready to be mad at Newsweek. I'd heard that they'd gotten a bunch of people killed. Bad as I hate the pinko MSM, Rand knows I'm an easy sell. What had Newsweek done...
Posted to Politics by Al Barger on May 18, 2005 05:53 AM

Newsweek: Smoke and Heat on Guantanamo
As temperatures rise regarding the Newsweek story in which the magazine quoted an anonymous source describing the desecration of a copy of the Koran, the Bush administration appear divided over both the impact that the brief item had on riots...
Posted to Politics by Weldon Berger on May 18, 2005 02:56 AM

MSM Again Proves To Be An Easy Target
No offense to Terry Turner of the Watching Washington blog, but Ron Suskind, former Wall Street Journal reporter, is full of crap! For that matter, so are others in the MSM who think there is some...
Posted to Politics by David Flanagan on May 17, 2005 07:52 PM

On Dealing Seriously With Journalistic Fraud
In the light of KoranGate and the meme of "Fake but Plausible" we should take a moment to reflect on the story that blew the top on fraud in Journalism, RatherGate. Yes, that story where obviously forged documents...
Posted to Politics by John Bambenek on May 17, 2005 05:24 PM