Salon on Abu Ghraib
Posted by Moonage on 17 Feb 2006 | Tagged as: The Media
Now, before I get too far into this one, I do read
Salon.com occasionally.
"All the news that’s fit to print" is their mantra, but not necessarily their
guide. They like to attack just about everything. Their stuff on
Hollywood and the like is pretty fun to read. Their politics are
ultra-radical to the point of anarchy. I take it is liberal-parody.
I don’t think they believe that, but they are. The news right now from
Salon was Tucker Carlson interviewing their editor in chief to explain why they
felt compelled to run new pics from Abu Ghraid and NOT the Danish cartoons that
have the Muslims attacking McDonalds.
She gave a very canned rebuttal that their pics were new news and the cartoons
not. Salon goes even further by
addressing this very issue on their web page, to wit:
- The images themselves partly answered the why-publish question for
us…. - the system itself broke down over Abu Ghraib…..
-
That is why Salon is willing to publish these troubling
photographs, even as we are ashamed to live in a country
that somehow came to accept that torture and prisoner abuse
were simply business as usual — something that occurs while
a sergeant catches up on his paperwork.
For some reason they use totally different excuses on their official page
than they do in front of the camera. Good thing too, because what she said
on camera was just plain wrong. The pictures are two years older than the
cartoons. They’ve just been released more recently. That doesn’t
make the story new again. Salon is trying to make the story new again.
That’s not reporting.
Second, I’m ashamed that they’re ashamed enough to shame their country just
to justify being ashamed.
Third, this whole incident is nothing but a political statement made by
Salon. They’re willing to use the sanctity of "media" free speech to
attack what they want, but ignore what they want as well. Publishing and
linking are two totally different levels of presentation. They’re willing
to make their own statement, but not support others that do if it offends
someone they don’t want to offend.
Fourth, they printed those pics for publicity only. Once printed, they
obviously have struggled to justify why ( one justification in print, another on
camera ). The reasons given are all wrong. They didn’t print the
Danish cartoons because they didn’t break the Danish cartoons.
Last, I won’t be reading Salon any more. What used to be a fairly fun
read in the past has turned into a
mean-spirited liberal propaganda rag. It’s not fun to read any more.
Ditch Salon and just read Jossip.
- Technorati Salon.com,
Abu Ghraib
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