My letter to "Newsweak"
Dear Sir:
You certainly failed to meet some sort of journalistic standards with your bloody false report about desecration of a Koran. This is an example of why I don't read your magazine, even when I am on a plane and the alternative is reading the plane's safety warnings. I hope you and the responsible parties go to your graves thinking of the lives lost in the riots that resulted from your lies and very likely additional western lives yet to be sacrificed in a conflict you helped inflame.
George Murphy
Here's mine:
The shoddy journalism beneath the phony Koran desecration story is matched only by the magazine's even shoddier explanation today which brazenly hints we can expect more of this, regardless of the insubstantiality of the claims and the consequence to innocent civilians and soldiers. At the moment more have been killed as a result of this fake story than were by the over-hyped abuses at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo.
The magazine's coverage of international affairs by the fourth rate thinkers on the Newsweek crew is risible. Its fake reportage (i.e. that Bush was delegated to the peanut gallery at the Pope's funeral when tens of millions could see live on TV broadcast throughout the world that that was false) is topped only by this example of irresponsible journalism.
Were I a public relations advisor, I'd suggest you make a stronger mea culpa immediately. But I'm not. I'm only a news watcher, increasingly enraged by your bias and incompetence. And I hope that like Rather, you continue down this path to extinction.