Media’s Pride Before Their Fall
Instapundit says it all:
Austin Bay has a must read summary suggesting this is The Press’ Abu Ghraib: Newsweek Apologizes, After 15 People Are Dead. Many others on this as well including Michelle Malkin with a great roundup of others' thoughts, Powerline (with a Postscript), Little Green Footballs and Roger Simon.GEE, THANKS GUYS:
. . . People died, and U.S. military and diplomatic efforts were damaged, because -- let's be clear here -- Newsweek was too anxious to get out a story that would make the Bush Administration and the military look bad.WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newsweek magazine on Sunday said it may have erred in a May 9 report that said U.S. interrogators desecrated the Koran at Guantanamo Bay, and apologized to victims of deadly violence sparked by the article.