Time Magazine: Newsweek "helped set off an anti-U.S. firestorm"

[Rose Siding]

Talk about your cutthroat competition...

When a Story Goes Terribly Wrong
How Newsweek botched its report on prisoner abuse—and helped set off an anti-U.S. firestorm

Journalists strive to be influential. But there can't be many who would hope to affect events the way Newsweek has in Afghanistan. The anti-American street protests that erupted there earlier this month—after the magazine reported that a Pentagon investigation would support claims that guards at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet—left as many as 17 dead and scores injured.

As it turned out, Muslim sensibilities and the U.S.'s image were not the only casualties.....

....By inevitable extension, journalism in general was back under a shadow, its reputation already scuffed by a series of incidents, including the Jayson Blair debacle at the New York Times, the fall of Jack Kelley at USA Today, the dubious National Guard memos at CBS, Newsweek's use of a doctored photo of Martha Stewart on its cover, and CNN and TIME's 1998 retraction of the "Tailwind" story that claimed the U.S. had used nerve gas during a 1970 commando mission in Laos.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1064416,00.html

When McClellan was asked "With all due respect, who made you editor of Newsweek", maybe only the name of the publication was wrong!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Straight from THE corporate mouthpiece.

If you like waxy tp....

[PurityOfEssence]

5. "I'll give them the news I want them to have"

That's from Henry Luce, founder of Time.

The way Time was complicit in the attempted coup of 1934 is jaw-dropping, and the way they buried their retraction in couched terms and tiny print is legendary. They have always been a mouthpiece for rightist power in this country; hell, they even named Hitler man of the year once. (Oh, all right, to be fair, the award is for "most influential", not necessarily "nicest", but it's still fun to remind people of it...)

[Flammable Materials]

2. Newsweek Next Week: "Time Editor Sucks Off Scott McClellan, Pix Inside!"

:rofl:

[Al-CIAda]

3. These fuckers are force feeding propaganda down our throats

regardless if it has been publically dubunked or not!

Zieg Heil!

AOL/TWX = the mightiest of the mighty whurlitzers. Look for CNN to carry this water too.

[Pithy Cherub]

4. Time: A total waste of Time

:rofl: where has all the influence gone...

[Toots]

6. I stopped reading Time years ago and have no regrets....none.

I still get Newsweek and enjoy a fairly well balanced news magazine. They are not Bush* apologists.