steve
05-20-2005, 02:27 PM
Seems to me the media os overloking something in the rush to judge Newsweek...
My thoughts:
1. News media - liberal and conservative, routinely use unidentified sources. Hell, Drudge is the best example of this.
2. In the past, this particular unidentified source had been extremely reliable - no one disputes this.
3. Newsweek claims, and the the Pentagon confirmed, that Newsweek ran the story by them and no one there re-butted the story.
It was only AFTER all of this that the source said that his facts MIGHT not have been true.
Was the source outed?
Was the source pressured?
Seems to me that is far more likely - logically speaking from the sequence of events - a sequence not in dispute.
It seems to me that if the story is not true, it is not due to poor reporting on Newsweek's part.
My thoughts:
1. News media - liberal and conservative, routinely use unidentified sources. Hell, Drudge is the best example of this.
2. In the past, this particular unidentified source had been extremely reliable - no one disputes this.
3. Newsweek claims, and the the Pentagon confirmed, that Newsweek ran the story by them and no one there re-butted the story.
It was only AFTER all of this that the source said that his facts MIGHT not have been true.
Was the source outed?
Was the source pressured?
Seems to me that is far more likely - logically speaking from the sequence of events - a sequence not in dispute.
It seems to me that if the story is not true, it is not due to poor reporting on Newsweek's part.