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May 17, 2005

Newsweek Kills People, Tells the World To Piss Off

The hubris, the absolute hubris of Newsweek over this... From Drudge:

"Mike was told he would not be sacrificed, we are stading behind him 100%," a top magazine source told the DRUDGE REPORT. "We do not, I repeat, do not let this White House, any White House, make our staff decisions for us." The top source claims an emotional Isikoff offered to resign from the magazine over the weekend....

Guys, you ran a false story you didn't even bother to fact check and 17 people died because of it. 17 fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters won't be coming home to their families because of YOUR failure to do basically journalistic work. Isikoff appears to have a conscience in this story and I do feel sorry for him because it's obviously a horrible thing to realize what you have caused but the management of Newsweek sticking their middle-finger up at the world and to America only demonstrates that treasonous and seditious nature of the MSM (and Newsweek in particular) over KoranKate

Posted by John Bambenek at May 17, 2005 9:59 AM

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Drudge's quotation from Newsweek regarding the high-minded independence of its staff decisions is interesting, given the following (reported by the Nyok Times at http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/17/politics/17koran.html?pagewanted=2):

The magazine said it showed the original article to a Pentagon official who challenged one aspect of the story but not the report about the desecration of the Koran.

In other words, Newsweek is trying to pass the buck by implying that the gummint vetted the story beforehand.

Posted by: Nathaniel DesH. Petrikov at May 17, 2005 2:45 PM

Actually, Newsweek did fact check it. They ran it by the Pentagon and the brass there had no problem with the Koran desecration mention. (It was an aside -- not the focus of the story).

Since Newsweek retracted their story, it turns out to have been proven true. The ICRC provided the Pentagon with several corrobrated reports as early as 2002 about Koran desectration at Gitmo. The Pentagon was aware of it, took steps to fix it, and the reports to the ICRC stopped.

Posted by: Denny Hix at May 20, 2005 3:04 PM