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Newsweek Retracts Koran Desecration Story

Joe Gandelman

Newsweek has now basically retracted the Koran desecration story that sparked riots in which people were killed. Details and some of the implications are here.

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Dean Esmay:

I'm ever so glad the mainstream press has so many layers of fact-checking and is so much more accountable than bloggers.

/sarcasm

5.15.2005 10:55pm

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HokiePundit (mail) (www):

Newsweek lied, people died.

5.15.2005 11:52pm

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Joe Gandelman (mail):

Yes, we're getting a crash course now in how far standards have fallen. Reading that report from NW about what happened, I can't imagine anyone doing that after having attended journalism school. This story was basically shoved through so they wouldn't be beaten. So it was published...and a LOT of people were beaten instead..

5.16.2005 12:09am

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Casey Tompkins (mail) (www):

Joe, I was going to berate you for such a lame comment on the situation:
"Newsweek has now basically retracted the Koran desecration story that sparked riots in which people were killed. Details and some of the implications are here."

I was thinking... that's it!? Then I followed the link Moderate Voice. Very nice summary over there.

I'm still flabbergasted at what was supposed to be "thinking" over at NEWSWEEK:
"-Well, our source didn't deny the allegation when we asked him.

-Since he didn't deny it, it must be true. Run it!!"

5.16.2005 12:26am

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Rhianna (aka rmschoon) (mail) (www):

You know, we count the dictators and rulers that have killed so many in grand scales of who was worst (Stalin, Hitler, Hirohito, etc.) but those with the most innocent blood on their hands (and word processors) are the press, specifically the press in the 'free world'.

They seem instilled in 'school' with how to hate Democracy, and how to print every lie imaginable to slader free people while bucking up the terrorists, strong men and and vile excrement of humanity in power in the rest of the world. If you tallied THEIR DEAD and WOUNDED I think you'd be pushing well past the 6 Billion people in the world today...and I'm only talking in the last 40 or so years (shortly after the Korean War). What's that say for the press of today? Not a damn thing worth repeating...

5.19.2005 4:42am