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  • Media Missteps. Context gets lost in hysteria and grandstanding.

    05/07/2004 11:27:09 AM PDT · by .cnI redruM · 16 replies · 226+ views
    NRO ^ | May 07, 2004, 9:40 a.m. | By Jonah Goldberg
    Because it is required to repeat the obvious as if it were catechism during feeding-frenzy moments like this, let me say again: The abuse of Iraqi prisoners depicted in those now world-famous photos is an outrageous scandal and the perpetrators must be punished. O.K., now can I say something else? CBS should be ashamed for running those photos. Since the journalistic priesthood insists that context is everything, let's get some context. The investigation into these abuses was long and well-underway before CBS's 60 Minutes II broke the story. In fact, it was the U.S. military that really broke the story...