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May 17, 2005

Too Little, Too Late

So Newsweek admits it was wrong and retracts the story of a Koran being flushed down a toilet.

Can they bring back the lives of those killed because they jumped on a story that would hurt the Bush Administration, without any proof whatsoever? What's to stop the media from simply making stuff up to prove their agenda? And yes, I am now convinced that the news organizations in this country have an agenda. They believe they know what is best for the country, and their reporting shows that the media, by and large, is very pro-UN and thinks an all world government is the way to go.

Of course, if the UN ran the world, just how much news reporting would they allow - seeing as the UN is made up of a ton of third world countries run by dictators.

I have never been a fan of Newsweek or Time - once upon a time I liked US News and World Report, but they have their biases too.

Posted by Beth at May 17, 2005 7:38 AM

Comments

Of course I completely agree with you, but Newsweek isn't totally to blame for the 15 dead.

But rioting because one lone story reports that a U.S. serviceman flushed a Koran? Something's very wrong with that scenario... Newsweek didn't kill those 15 people, their murderers did. I'm not saying that they aren't culpable at all, but the gross overreaction is not the mark of a people willing to calmly investigate and get at the truth...

Posted by: pam at May 17, 2005 10:00 AM

Pam, you are absolutely right. There have been many instances of people doing the equivelant to Catholic icons - the Crucifix in Urine 'work of art', for example, of the Blessed Virgin Mary sculpted out of manure - but the Pope doesn't issue a demand for a religious war!

Islam is bizarre - and getting more so.

Posted by: Beth at May 17, 2005 11:44 AM

Let's not forget the Wahabists who like to use pages of the Bible as toilet paper... of course, our failure to react violently to that is, in their eyes, simply a sign of our lack of faith and committment...

Posted by: John of Argghhh! at May 17, 2005 12:01 PM

I agree with Pam. Newsweek is not reponsible for the death of anyone.

Anyone who thinks they are probally thinks that JD Salinger is responsible for the death of John Lennon as well.

Posted by: LHM at May 18, 2005 3:32 AM

On the other hand, News Week should also have realized, bein' so smart an' all, that the Muslim fundamentalists over there who are into violence would jump at an excuse like that Periscope report to do exactly as they did.

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