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To: Poet who wrote (104419)	5/17/2005 4:07:56 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Your post raises a lot of issues for me, Poet. I guess the primary one is whether the press should suppress news because it is not favorable to the American war machine. I do not remember them doing that during the Vietnam war. In fact the bodies of the dead Vietnamese and American soldiers was a primary factor that played into the peace movement's campaign to end the war. In the Iraqi war there are never any Iraqi civilian bodies shown on American television, a notable change. Is that because the press has capitulated completely to the Bush administration and we no longer have a free press? In all fairness to Newsweek, this report about the Quoran flushing had been out for some time. Newsweek was not the first to report it, and I found out this morning watching an MSNBC panel discussion that there is an ongoing investigation about whether this happened at the Pentagon. It was definitely also reported in a recent book. It seems to me that Newsweek had no idea of the political sensitivity given this background. I also found out by watching the same discussion that not only the Pentagon but Centcom in Florida had reviewed the story before it was printed. They also could have killed it. And that the senior U.S. government official was a high Pentagon official who had given them credible information in the past. Is it possible that the Bush administration is playing this to the fullest to distract the American public from the fact that not only is the effort in Iraq not going very well at the moment, but also that the situation in Afghanistan is falling apart? And is it not hypocritical for the Bush administration to blame Newsweek for this debacle based on their argument that the information Newsweek published was not accurate, and some people have died, when the Bush administration itself went to war based on inaccurate information and tens of thousands of people have died because of their misinformation? Ron Reagan Jr. made this argument on the MSNBC panel this morning. I think there is a lot more to this story than meets the eye. And the only real retraction Newsweek has made is that the senior U.S. government official who thought he saw reference to the Quoran flushing incident in a particular internal investigative document is not now sure that it was in that particular document that he saw it. Not much of a retraction, really, when you think about it.

To: Poet who wrote (104419)	5/18/2005 10:00:35 AM
From: Bill	Respond to of 108807

That response from your friend is illustrative of what is wrong with journalism today, IMO. There is no attention to the pesky details of proper sourcing whatsoever. Sheesh, even a high school student paper has better standards than the MSM.