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May 16, 2005
Newsweek Lied - People Died
Newsweek reaffirmed their position as a liberal, yellow, tabloid supermarket-checkout-counter rag last week, by reporting false, unsubstantiated rumors as fact. They falsely reported that U.S. interragators in Guantanamo Bay desecrated the Koran by flushing it down a commode, sparking riots across the globe. Muslims around the world took to the streets burning U.S. flags, and attacking people. At last count, approximately 15 people were reported killed in what was possibly the most massive religious uprising since the Crusades.
Newsweek was slow to correct their account and buried it when they did. Their response was eerily reminiscent of CBS's attempt to justify Dan Rather's career-ending news fiasco, claiming his documents were "fake, but accurate".
If this had happened in the blogosphere, Newsweek, CBS, and Eason Jordan would be filleting the blogs, field-dressing the guilty, calling for congressional hearings, prosecutions for manslaughter, censorship, and a clear deliniation between professional journalists and the pajama-clad bloggers. However, since it happened to one of their own, there was merely a minor shuffling of the Titanic's deck chairs.
The MSM will have to shed it's blatant, well-documented liberal bias, or it will become obsolete, as the internet provides alternate views on the same stories, and "readers" reach out to form a new, more interactive, and less biased representation of the events unfolding in the world around us.
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Posted by Peenie Wallie on May 16, 2005 at 03:56 PM
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