Irresponsible Journalism

[NUKE_CLEVELAND]

True

 

It's amazing how a story about how newsweek f***ed up gets infinitely more coverage than the story of an innocent man being killed in US custody via his legs being beaten so badly that a clot stops his heart.

 

 

Yeah but not as much as the bloodthirsty media and their obsession with beheadings and carbombings in Iraq. Frankly, nobody gives a damn about someone who dies in U.S. custody over there.

Edited May 27, 2005 by NUKE_CLEVELAND

[southsider2k5]

True

 

It's amazing how a story about how newsweek f***ed up gets infinitely more coverage than the story of an innocent man being killed in US custody via his legs being beaten so badly that a clot stops his heart.

 

Or that any of it gets more coverage than people who are experiencing freedom of all kinds for the first time.

[mreye]

Or that any of it gets more coverage than people who are experiencing freedom of all kinds for the first time.

OMG!

[Rex Kickass]

Cause noone covered the Iraqi elections.

[southsider2k5]

Cause noone covered the Iraqi elections.

 

Sure they did... they covered the suicide bombings, low turnout, people afraid for their lives etc...

[Rex Kickass]

That's a pretty selective memory, but you're right - those were huge concerns for Iraq, and considering that they basically had to lockdown the entire country to have the election go off peacefully, I'd say that was a valid news story.

 

At the same time, when it did go off well, there was nothing but Iraq Elections coverage for days.

 

It's a nice deflection to say, you aren't reporting the good news with a story like this - but its just a deflection. Because in the end, this story became about a government that tried to discredit a magazine for reporting a story that wasn't what the government wanted to hear... even though the magazine was right.

 

What concerns me here isn't the press, it's our government's reaction to what the press does, and how our society acts as a result.

[TheBigHurt35]

Here are your "abuses" of the Koran.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/26/quran/index.html

 

What a bunch of horses*** this whole argument is.  The detainee who made the charge now says he didn't actually see this alleged flushing but "heard about it somewhere". 

 

These allegations of Koran abuse are flimsy at best and are getting more so with every passing day.

 

Of course, we didn't see anybody in the Middle East holding violent protests over bin Laden's desecreation of Islam after 9/11.

 

And speaking of bin Laden, "Muslims" are protesting this alleged desecration of the Koran in Pakistan today. Guess who their poster boy is? I hope they set themselves on fire while attempting to burn our flag.

Edited May 27, 2005 by TheBigHurt35

[Texsox]

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon on Friday released new details about mishandling of the Quran at the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects, confirming that a soldier deliberately kicked the Muslim holy book and that an interrogator stepped on a Quran and was later fired for "a pattern of unacceptable behavior."

 

In other confirmed incidents, a guard's urine came through an air vent and splashed on a detainee and his Quran; water balloons thrown by prison guards caused an unspecified number of Qurans to get wet; and in a confirmed but ambiguous case, a two-word obscenity was written in English on the inside cover of a Quran.

 

The findings, released after normal business hours Friday evening, are among the results of an investigation last month by Brig. Gen. Jay Hood, the commander of the detention center in Cuba, that was triggered by a Newsweek magazine report _ later retracted _ that a U.S. soldier had flushed one Guantanamo Bay detainee's Quran down a toilet.

 

The story stirred worldwide controversy and the Bush administration blamed it for deadly demonstrations in Afghanistan.

 

Hood said in a written statement released Friday evening, along with the new details, that his investigation "revealed a consistent, documented policy of respectful handling of the Quran dating back almost 2 1/2 years."

 

A spokesman for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Lawrence Di Rita, did not address the confirmed incidents of mishandling the Muslim holy book. Reached while traveling with Rumsfeld in Asia, Di Rita said that U.S. Southern Command policy calls for "serious, respectful and appropriate" handling of the Quran.

 

"The Hood inquiry would appear to affirm that policy," Di Rita said.

 

Hood said that of nine mishandling cases that were studied in detail by reviewing thousands of pages of written records, five were confirmed to have happened. He could not determine conclusively whether the four others took place.

 

In one of those four unconfirmed cases, a detainee in April 2003 complained to FBI and other interrogators that guards "constantly defile the Quran." The detainee alleged that in one instance a female military guard threw a Quran into a bag of wet towels to anger another detainee, and he also alleged that another guard said the Quran belonged in the toilet and that guards were ordered to do these things.

 

Hood said he found no other record of this detainee mentioning any Quran mishandling. The detainee has since been released.

 

In the most recent confirmed case, Hood said a detainee complained on March 25, 2005, of urine splashing on him and his Quran. An unidentified guard admitted at the time that "he was at fault," the Hood report said, although it did not say whether the act was deliberate. The guard's supervisor reprimanded him and assigned him to gate guard duty, where he had no contact with detainees for the remainder of his assignment at Guantanamo Bay.

[JUGGERNAUT]

As I am not surprised the secularists who apparently hate the religious fail to understand the bigger ethical question here.

 

Does reporting the news & of course reaping the $ that comes from that more important than protecting/saving lives? Whether the story is true or not should not take precedence over the fallout expected by the story. News should not be reported in total indifference to the consequences of that reporting. That's not a religious rule to live by but a humanitarian one.

 

As for the blantant anti-religious statments expressed in this thread your lack of compassion, understanding, civility, & kindness is obvious. There is no reason to make yourselfs sound any more soulless than you already are.

[Texsox]

John 8:32

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.