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Jeff, (et al) does this official retraction imply culpability? I suspect ‘sorry’ will sound a bit hollow to the families of the 16 dead, so I’m wondering if they or any other party to this mess has legal recourse? Can the US Gov’t sue for defamation of character?
And do you think this means the end of Newsweek as a going concern? Should it?
Similar question: What does retraction mean? Is that like a huge admission or what?
Non-journalists want to know.
Spam word: newsweeksucksballs
I made that up.
Perhaps Newsweek could cut out and offer up the still beating hearts of 17 of their journalists, starting with Michael Isikoff’s, as a goodwill gesture… (assumimg they could find 17 with hearts)… Its not an equal trade but it would make an alright start…
Newsweek will survive. Hell, Isikoff hasn’t even been reprimanded.
No, we’ll see the usual week of media “soul searching,” followed by the inevitable media conclusion that what they do is far too important to the general well-being of democracy to get too gun shy with their reporting because of one or two “admittedly serious” screw ups. Isikoff will be defended on the basis of his overall oeuvre, which will be deemed “fair” and “conscientious” by the majority of mainstream reporters.
Think they’ll cough up the name of the “knowlegable government official”?
Bets on it being a Dem? Even money?
I’m giving 3:1 on the source being a Senator.
Spambuster: nations
Fuck that!
BTW, a journalist told me on deep background that at the last American Press Convention they saw Dan Rather and Eason Jordan tearing pages out of the Koran and stuffing them in the panties of a pole-dancing Maureen Dowd who screamed, “Up the money hole, Allah!” Maybe.
How many will die senselessly in the Maureen Dowd riots, SL?
Newsweek cleverly using famous Emily Litella comeback
I bet that story’s not the only thing that’s retracting over there.
Why, Gail!
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Spamword, “size.” “Nuff said.
It was cold! There was shrinkage!
Major shrinkage!
Anyway, thanks for the laff, SaltLick.
Hey, even your nom de net is funny!
BTW, anybody catch the transcript of some Newsweek, oops, sorry, NEWSWEEK, flaks defending the story on Imus’ radio show posted at Malkin’s place? (Too lazy to link. I trust everyone here can make an extra mouseclick every now and then.)
Anyhoo, they keep bringing up All the President’s Men as a template for the brave reporting done by Isikoff et al.
Imus: That was a movie.
Shrinkage? Then you gotta spell it “newsweek”!
As has been remarked elsewhere in the ‘sphere, it’s a bit pathetic that their best defense is that they are unable to conclude that the story is untrue.
their best defense is that they are unable to conclude that the story is untrue
Newsweek hired Mary Mapes, and no one told us?
NewsWeek:”Look, we retracted the story, what do you want us to do? Say we’re sorry? Fine. We’re sorry. Happy now? Christ you people.
Now turn to page three for our inside story on Michael Jackson!!! Hot ! Hot ! Hot !
And our expose’ on Judicial Filibusters!!! Hot! Hot! Hot!”
Seriously, does anyone honestly think there will be any blowback by the end of the week? NewsWeek loses a few spots for its radio show and a few hundred subscriptions. That’s it, I can almost gauruntee it. The’ll be back to being shills for the Arab world before you know it.
What sells more, a picture of some guy in a turban burning a flag or a shot of Bolton? Seriously, look at the guy, not exactly easy on the eyes if ya know what I mean…
It’s worth hammering that the journalistic ethics required to do the retraction are dissimilar (apparently require a much higher standard) to the journalistic ethics required to print the story in the first place.
(Just a bit of intratextuality to resignify some graphemes with. – Gail: Jeff is a cunning linguist.)
Darn. I wanted one of those toilets.
…so he says “Gimme one big enough to fit a Qura’n.”
Get it?
I get it, mojo.
I’d love to pull the chain just once on the atomic crapper powerful enough to flush an entire book.
You could retire your plunger forever if you had one of those babies, I bet.
antispam word: “More,” as in “more toilet paper? Sure. Why not?”
The question I have consistently seen failed to be asked, is:
Of the 16 or 17 people dead in these riots, were any of them people we wouldn’t want dead? Or that didn’t want us (Americans, Jews, etc.) dead?
If that’s the case, then fuck ‘em, and keep flushing.
I think the Newsweek guys may be smarter than we’re giving them credit for. At the very least, they’re smart enough to learn from the mistakes of others. If you remember, it was CBS’s protracted and insane refusal to acknowledge that their story was false that forced them to finally admit that their “unimpeachable source” was really anti-Bush crackpot Bill Burkett. Had they ‘fessed up in days as opposed to weeks, as Newsweek has done, I wonder if the drumbeat would have died down enough that they could have avoided ever telling us who sent them the memos.
Anyway, it just occurred to me that no one seems to be asking just who this “anonymous” source was, who claimed to have read a report about the Koran-flushing, then backed away from it. I know that journalists all love to adhere to this romantic willingness to protect a source’s identity, no matter what, but what I don’t get is why you would protect the anonymity of someone who just made you eat a big shitburger in front of the whole world. My guess is that the only reason you wouldn’t want to reveal who the story came from is because identifying the source would make you look even worse–like if the source has a demonstrated willingness, even desire, to make the military–and by extension Bush–look bad.
Could the source be a prominent Democrat? A Senator on the Intelligence Committee, maybe? We’ll probably never know now.
Michelle Malkin was asking who the source was as of yesterday morning.
I don’t get it. who actually READS Newsweek? and why would a story incite violence? very very strange. apparently they don’t much respect each others lives wherever the deaths occurred. like chill already, it was a Newsweek story for fuckssake.
Garth: These are people who fire AK-47s into the air whenever they’re happy and then wonder why some schmuck in the crowd wound up dead. In other words, they’re not big on forethought.
MSM manufacturing their own news again. They run this, create a riot and then cover the riot. And all they have to say is “Nevermind!”
They don’t care and it won’t stop the next news source from doing the same thing. Their is no downside. Look at CBS, how have they TRULY suffered? They toss the producer to the lions, put Rather out to pasture and move on to this week’s episode of Survivor. No publicity is bad publicity. They are likely to sell more magazines because of their bs.
As far as being responsible for the deaths though…no way. The deaths were caused by uncivilized morons running out and setting their own city on fire because they were mad at another country on the other side of the world. Good for them.
And since burning the American flag has been going on for sometime over their, I really don’t care if someone flushed the Koran down the toilet. They decided a long time ago that desecrating symbols valued by the people was absolutely in the rules of engagement. Screw ‘em.
And apparently I use “their” instead of “there” whenever I want. homonyms are just the man trying to keep me down! Power to the peeple!
Sorry. I obviously popped off without reading enough.
I still wonder if they’ll feel as pressured to reveal the source as CBS was.
On the coattails of the apology not really by Evan Thomas on Huffington Toast today, I’d like to take the opportunity to address certain criticisms of me leveled recently by many uninformed members of the blogosphere. The most common comment I’ve seen seems to be something along the line of †Ya..suuure.. as if a copy of The Koran COULD even fit down a toilet..†The implication being that I’m some kind of incompetent journalist for not considering that fact. Well, to you brilliant Illuminati, let me say this.. That’s quite the Americcentric attitude.. To the Arabs (as well as much of the rest of the world) a ‘toilet’ is a hole in the ground, maybe 10″ across, that one squats over.. The Arabs wouldnt know a “Thomas Crapper Throne†if it bit them in the arse.. Christ guys, those people wipe their butt with their hand… They havent discovered TP; Do you think they’re up on modern toilet technology? Sure.. a Holy Q’uran couldn’t fit down YOUR image of a toilet but I guarantee it would fit down their’s… I knew exactly what I was writing … I mean quoting from a reliable source…
— MI (reprinted without permission from Huffington Toast)
No word on how Newsweek plans to retract the 17 deaths and hundreds of injuries caused by its eagerness to demonize the US military in general
Maybe by pointing out to all the brave CITIZEN JOURNALISTS of the 101st FK that it was actually just a bunch of ragheads who died anyway, so all the sanctimonious brow-furrowing is completely wasted in this case. Unless, that is, the real reason for said furrowing of brows is the right’s eagerness to demonize the US media and create an atmosphere in which real journalists are afraid to print anything critical of the government – as long as there’s a Republican in charge, of course. I mean, not that I’m saying that’s the case; just that if it were, all this concern about dead Muslims might seem a little bit, y’know, insincere.
Hmmm…my post didn’t post…CONSPIRACY!! CONSPIRACY!!
Oh, ahem…uh, where was I? Oh yeah.
Not to sound too right-wing-nutjobby or anything, but when does disinformation as a weapon become treasonous?
Hey, if we could get all the Islamofascists, terrorists and misc insurgents across the Middle East to kill each other by flushing copies of the Q’uran, I’d be all for it.. Hell, broadcast it.
But you dont want to make the average Muslims sitting on the fence, waiting to see which way the wind blows to be even more pissied with the American presence.. No use in herding them toward supporting the Musab al Zarqawe/Sadr groups. I’d kinda like to see our guys come home from a stable Iraq in my lifetime…