Woman With Leash Appears in Court on Abu Ghraib Abuse Charges

The New York Times ^ | August 4, 2004 | KATE ZERNIKE

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Sara Davis/Reuters Pfc. Lynndie R. England arriving at a hearing on Tuesday in Ft. Bragg, N.C.

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

From the headline, it sounded as if she showed up to court brandishing a leash.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Military proceedings against a U.S. soldier photographed holding an Iraqi prisoner on a leash were delayed again on July 12, 2004 with a court date set for August 3 in a case which rattled the Bush administration's war effort. A military court announced the new date for the hearing to decide whether Pfc. Lynndie England. England holds what appears to be a dog's leash around the neck of a naked man at the Abu Ghraib prison in this image published May 6. Photo by The Washington Post/Reuters

[Jeff Chandler]

Front page, top of fold?

[conservative in nyc]

Woman With Leash Appears in Court on Abu Ghraib Abuse Charges

I'd expect that headline from the New York Post, not the New York Times. I guess "Woman with leash" is the p.c. way of saying "Leash Girl" (kind of like "person with disability" instead of "disabled person").

Leash Girl only has a leash --- it's not a disease.

[conservative in nyc]

Front page, top of fold?

Nt quite. But a summary of the article is the first front-page teaser under "Inside". http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/2004/08/04/nytfrontpage/scan.jpg

[Cincinatus' Wife]

It's on the NYTimes web page - first story under International Affairs. Why do you ask?

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

I guess "Woman with leash" is the p.c. way of saying "Leash Girl"

How about calling her "Pfc England"? Didn't the New York Times used to be a newspaper or something? Lately the National Enquirer has been more accurate and less sensationalistic.

"Woman With Leash" sounds like a bad Mamie Van Doren movie.

[Skooz]

It is beyond ridiculous that we are treating this as some kind of "war crime."

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Front page, top of fold?

I'm sure that's reserved for lavish praise of the brave whistleblowers who comprise the Swiftboat Veterans Against John Kerry.

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

It is beyond ridiculous that we are treating this as some kind of "war crime."

One person's Woman With Leash is another person's Freedom Fighter.

[conservative in nyc]

Here's today's Slimes front page. The article's listed first under "Inside" with the more neutral caption "Abu Ghraib Guard Appears in Court". I have no clue why the Slimes went New York Post-al with their headline inside. Pfc. England's picture appears directly to the right in the "Inside" box. The actual article appears somewhere in the first 9 pages of the paper, as far as I can tell, but it's hard to read the jpeg.

[Skooz]

This is a war crime:

[#3Fan]

Exactly.

[Jeff Chandler]

It's on the NYTimes web page - first story under International Affairs. Why do you ask?

This kind of story usually gets prominence in the NYTIMES.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

O.K.

This woman is hardly someone to hold up as representative of our troops.

[NYCVirago]

Woman With Leash Appears in Court on Abu Ghraib Abuse Charges

What a horrendous headline. They're trying to be tabloidy and serious at the same time, and it just doesn't work. Besides, it sounds as if the Times is saying she showed up in court with the leash!

[conservative in nyc]

Remember that the Slimes featured the Abu Ghraib prison "scandal" on its front page nearly every day in May. It's a legitimate question whether the Slimes is going to continue to beat this dead horse by giving it front page prominence. I think today's placement is a sort of compromise --- it's kind of on the front page, but kind of isn't, either.

[The Scourge of Yazid]

The New York Times?

Too Hip For The Room?

Naah, not really.

[Jeff Chandler]

I don't get it.