Newsweek FUBAR, Continued, Again

Posted by Moonage on 17 May 2005 | Tagged as: The Media

"Based on what we know now, we are retracting our original story that an internal military investigation had uncovered Koran abuse at Guantanamo Bay," editor Mark Whitaker said in statement released Monday evening.

That’s according to Fox. So far there’s no retraction at Newsweek.com. In fact, the same garbage is still there. In fact, this is still their synopsis:

Such stories may spark more trouble. Though decrepit and still run largely by warlords, Afghanistan was not considered by U.S. officials to be a candidate for serious anti-American riots. But Westerners, including those at NEWSWEEK, may underestimate how severely Muslims resent the American presence, especially when it in any way interferes with Islamic religious faith.

What they resent is when media blasphemes their religion for the sake of selling magazines. Think about this for just one second Evan Thomas, were there any rioting BEFORE your bogus story? Think about that and then think about what you have written targeting Westerners. Put that in perspective of the lives lost and why they were lost.  Your attitude has gotten people killed and seriously hurt the efforts of those soldiers who had already lost their lives in Afghanistan. 

Evan Thomas doesn’t need to be in his position at Newsweek.  Newsweek should have immediately retracted the story as soon as they knew it had problems with accuracy and THEN verified it.  Better yet, they should have made sure it was accurate in the first place.  Newsweek needs to clean house from the very top.  There is something bad wrong there.

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