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  • Newsweek's nightmares (Newsweek slapped hard by Powerline)

    05/15/2005 12:19:09 PM PDT · by hipaatwo · 130 replies · 3,534+ views
    Yesterday's London Times reports on the rioting and deaths triggered by Michael Isikoff's Periscope item in Newsweek on alleged abuse of the Koran at Guantanomo: "Newsweek sparks global riots with one paragraph on Koran." The new issue of Newsweek carries an account by assistant managing editor Evan Thomas on Isikoff's Periscope item: "How a fire broke out." Thomas appears to concede that Isikoff erred and explains how. Thomas writes: Late last week Pentagon spokesman Lawrence DiRita told NEWSWEEK that its original story was wrong. The brief periscope item ("SouthCom Showdown") had reported on the expected results of an upcoming U.S....