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Tue 17 May, 2005 04:48 am
Now we have the Government forcing the press to retract stories merely because they are contrary to the Bush crime family's interests. It is a sad day.
http://reuters.myway.com/article/20050516/2005-05-16T225847Z_01_N16479546_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-RELIGION-KORAN-DC.html
""Based on what we know now, we are retracting our original story that an internal military investigation had uncovered Koran abuse at Guantanamo Bay," Newsweek Editor Mark Whitaker said in a statement, a day after apologizing for the report."
"The retraction came as the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department all heavily criticized the report and said it had damaged the U.S. image abroad"
No more than it was already
Re: When Free Speech Died, Nobody Cried
Chrissee wrote:Now we have the Government forcing the press to retract stories merely because they are contrary to the Bush crime family's interests.
I don't guess you'd care to provide evidence for this? Your belief that it happened isn't the same as knowledge that it happened. I await your irrelevant personal jibe or other evasion.
The media is SUPPOSE to provide accurate, unbiased information to the public. This notion, however, is untrue and we all know it, even if we nearly always believe everything we hear or see (most americans, most of the time).
Maybe it happened. Maybe it didn't. With the way media is today, who the hell really knows??
I agree whole-heartedly with you there Bella.
And Brandon, just like everything else Chrissee writes, it is so because she says it is. Haven't you figured that out by now?
Re: When Free Speech Died, Nobody Cried
Chrissee wrote:Now we have the Government forcing the press to retract stories merely because they are contrary to the Bush crime family's interests. It is a sad day.
It's only sad when you support news stories that are false and are only published to harm the US.
Re: When Free Speech Died, Nobody Cried
Baldimo wrote:Chrissee wrote:Now we have the Government forcing the press to retract stories merely because they are contrary to the Bush crime family's interests. It is a sad day.
It's only sad when you support news stories that are false and are only published to harm the US.
To be fair, I expect they wanted to sell some magazines, not just harm the US.
Re: When Free Speech Died, Nobody Cried
DrewDad wrote:Baldimo wrote:Chrissee wrote:Now we have the Government forcing the press to retract stories merely because they are contrary to the Bush crime family's interests. It is a sad day.
It's only sad when you support news stories that are false and are only published to harm the US.
To be fair, I expect they wanted to sell some magazines, not just harm the US.
Knowing the "Muslim street" they had to know how this was going to go over. When a film maker gets killed for making a film about Islam you know this isn't going to go over well.
Baldimo, I doubt the publishers of Newsweek had some dark alterior motive in mind other than they thought they were breaking a story that would sell lots of copy.
However, the fact that so many on the left are decrying the retraction after it has been shown repeatedly to be false has shown the character of left. It has shown that in no way can they possibly allow themselves to ever support the US, the President or freedom.
Patriots? HA!
The press is more powerful than politicians, it would take a -lot- for the government to attempt to restrict the press' ability to cover the news. Newsweek is I believe, part of a global media corporation. Offending someone with that much power over world view is a bad way to get re-elected.
It's far more likely that either A) the news company realised they couldn't back their claim or B) some shady underhand deal was made. I doubt the government leaned on newsweek with too much pressure.
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