Monday, May 16, 2005

The Washington Post's treatment of the Newsweek flub

The Washington Post's is a major owner of Newsweek. Let's take a look at how they treated Newsweek's admission of error today on the matter of the allegation that Navy personnel flushed a Koran in the latrine at Gitmo...



It's placed above the fold, but below a picture of dead bodies in Baghdad. The image has no link to an article in the subheading, and the image is nearly identical to one run on Friday. In other words, it's in all likelihood a 3 day old image, and tossed in there to diminish the presence of the item on Newsweek's fatal screw-up. The excitation started by that story led to 15 deaths.

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