Mag Dead Wrong

Reposted as history. Originally posted in May of 2005.

To be absolutely clear, let me expand that headline - Magazine "Dead" Wrong. Dead, as in people died. Real people who will never again be able to hug their children.

MAG DEAD WRONG
by Deborah Orin - May 17th, 2005 - The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — Newsweek yesterday abruptly retracted its collapsing claim that GIs flushed a Koran down the toilet, after the magazine got blasted by the White House — and sparked riots that killed at least 17 in the Muslim world.

"Based on what we know now, we are retracting our original story that an internal military investigation had uncovered Qur'an [Koran] abuse at Guantanamo Bay," Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker wrote.

Newsweek's belated admission that it was wrong in claiming that a probe had found interrogators at the detainee camp at the U.S. base in Cuba flushed a Koran came after days of refusing to budge, even after its lone anonymous source said he couldn't stand by the story.

Once again the main stream media (MSM) writes an article from their politically biased perspective that America is always the bad guy, and anything negative about us must be true. In a world where we have real enemies (besides the MSM) this article gave them an excuse to drum up riots and kill those who are our allies.

Today, the press is still insisting that the Pentagon did not stop them from printing it. They argue it is therefore not really the fault of the press. What hypocrisy. If the Pentagon had said they thought it was false but could not immediately prove it was false, the story would have been about how the Millitary was trying to cover up something. The most important part of this story is how clearly it proves the bias of the MSM.