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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Ilaine who wrote (121121)6/21/2005 12:18:02 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 793707
 
No, Newsweek reported what was told to them by someone else. They didn't invent the story

Well, as it happens, they did sort of invent the story. But in any case, they generated it as a story - they made it public, they were the first reporters of it. Therefore, a certain onus lay on them to get it right.

One thing the ensuing hysteria does is prevent anybody from talking about the original story. Convenient, no?

The original story, viewed non-hysterically, amounts to a sober discussion of the boundaries of human interrogation. But that is not the discussion the people who came up with slogans like "the gulag of our times" wanted to have. And Durbin was trying to cash in the same card. So I hardly think this qualifies as a distraction from a larger story, more like whipping up a small story into a cause celebre
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