Posted on 05/15/2005 10:31:22 AM PDT by Pikamax
May 23 issue - Did a report in NEWSWEEK set off a wave of deadly anti-American riots in Afghanistan? That's what numerous news accounts suggested last week as angry Afghans took to the streets to protest reports, linked to us, that U.S. interrogators had desecrated the Qur'an while interrogating Muslim terror suspects. We were as alarmed as anyone to hear of the violence, which left at least 15 Afghans dead and scores injured. But I think it's important for the public to know exactly what we reported, why, and how subsequent events unfolded.
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How about Michael Isikoff and John Barry be forced into a public outdoor meeting with them over there. No military protection
Thank you for your observation. I didn't see anything like an apology, either. Simply their standard "we possibly accidently misprinted some stuff that might not be completely true so don't write us any more notes letting us know about our teensy error - we're just human after all"
I"d like to give those Newsweek bedwetters some ammunition, in the fullest sense of that transitory verb. Save a little for the ones at NPR and the New York Times too.
Apparently Newsweek didn't bother to consider the US military who might be "caught in the middle" before they rushed to print the bogus story, did they? Behold the Mainstream Media - America-hating to its very last breath...
"The islamists could care less whether it actually happened or not. I'm sure they are extremely grateful to newsweak for handing them some much-needed ammo to stir up the hatred of their brain-dead mooslimb bretheren at our expense."
True enough....but what has gone un-noticed on this thread is that HERE WE GO AGAIN....while Christianity is under assault from every quarter imaginable, WE ARE DEFERRING AGAIN TO THIS EVIL "RELIGION" CALLED ISLAM....
self ping
Agreed. This is criminal manslaughter.
I hope someone so charges them, and the subsequent legal maneuvering is well advertised.
The first magazine subscription I ever bought was Newsweek. After two years, I cancelled it. That was about 35 years ago. Since then I've seen probably five stories out of it.
I have no regrets.
As a news magazine, the Limbaugh Letter is better --- and that is definitely not a news magazine.
Mainstream media lies, people die.
If the rioters want to protest something, they should protest Newsweek's having even one correspondent in ANY Muslim country. They should demand every last one leave on the first thing smoking, and never return. That would give the America-haters at Newsweek a first-hand example of the magical, mythical power of "The Arab Street", and it would serve the dual purpose of alleviating true patriots of a thorn in the side.
Coming in late --- didn't read your original give and take, but I agree with you, apparently. This is an example of a story that ought not have been published. As I said in one of my posts in the last 20 or so minutes - with "Freedom of ..." comes "Responsibility for ..."
Newsweek ought to be charged with criminal charges of manslaughter for the NEWSWEEK MURDERS. They ought to be charged by the US military with treason and cleaving to the enemy in time of war.
One could probably make the same claim about manufacturers of violent video games. :-)
yet another great one liner... that can be extended to ALL the other FRAUDcasters, I believe.
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I had thought about that, but should have wrapped it into the comment.
Get with the program :^)
How so? Doom, for example, is clearly marketed as a game - not the true tale of how evil demons are invading Earth and must be killed by an intrepid hero. Newsweek claims to be portraying the truth.
Say 10 times - I will think before I post!
I believe that it is time our government must make clear to the FRAUDcasters that if they don't start acting responsible in their reporting about this war, that we will start imposing wartime censorship.
With "Freedom of ... " comes "Responsibility for ...". If they can't figure out how to do it themselves, we're going to have to impose it on them.
How many times has a video game caused riots in the streets, resulting in death? Not a one. There have been a few cases of 'the game (or Twinkies) made me do it' defenses in murder trials, but not one has been credible. The cause of these riots is the Newsweek story (as the riots were not occurring prior to this on this issue, so this is a case of mass hysteria caused by unbelievably stupid reporting), now shown to be bogus. The rioters are calling for the death of those 'responsible' for the desecration of the Queer'an; desecration that didn't occur as reported. Granting that these rioters were seeking a reason to kill people, how does that exonerate the 'reporters' that didn't fact check a story that they knew would inflame passions of the Arab 'street'? It doesn't.
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