Jim Lampley blasts the Howling Punditry on the Newsweek Story

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/jim-lampley/to-roger-l-simon-the-re_966.html

Roger L. Simon's rebuke of Newsweek in the wake of the magazine's admission of error in the case of the flushed Koran report comes off more as a cheap shot than a knockout punch. Simon writes as if the too highly-regarded "anonymous source" is a journalistic franchise of the left, a story tool never employed by media supporters of Pax Americana true belief. Nonsense. Regardless of your opinion of the efficacy of anonymously-sourced information, you'd tie yourself in knots trying to prove substantively that it has been used more frequently or flagrantly by either side. It is what it is.

In laying responsibility for large-scale rioting and fourteen attendant deaths at the hands of the magazine and its reporters, Simon conveniently ignores that reports of Koran desecration at Guantanamo had first appeared in 2004, in newspapers both in the United Kingdom and Russia, as well as on the Qatar-based television network Al Jazeera. Newsweek didn't run the story, actually a look-ahead to a future story which included the Koran detail, until reporters who had been diligently covering the story for months were motivated by what they describe as a high-level government source.

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For pro-Bush writers to attempt to guilt-trip professional reporters for collateral damage is beyond ludicrous. It's immoral.

[autorank]

1. Jim Lampley

:yourock: and rock hard!

[G_j]

2. attempt to guilt-trip professional reporters for collateral damage

As usual, nowhere else on the planet would people buy this unbelievable nonsense.

[tanyev]

3. This is interesting.

Newsweek didn't run the story, actually a look-ahead to a future story which included the Koran detail, until reporters who had been diligently covering the story for months were motivated by what they describe as a high-level government source.

Backs up the idea of a Rovian double/triple/quadruple-cross.

[moddemny]

4. Whoa........

"a Rovian double/triple/quadruple-cross", is rovian now be used as new word to imply a conspiracy? Or you are you saying the actual Karl Rove did this? I think Karl Rove gets way too much credit.

[tanyev]

5. Did you see the quote from Hamid Karzai?

The riots were set off by claims in a US magazine that a Koran was desecrated by being left on a toilet at Guantanamo. Mr Karzai said the flames were fanned by "outside elements", usually taken to refer to Pakistani intelligence.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3667679

Fanned by outside elements. Funny how those signs are all in English. Funny how these charges have been made before and never caused a riot before. How many Afghanis do you think receive Newsweek magazine in their mailbox?

I just finished reading All the President's Men. Stealing letterhead and producing false memos were commonplace dirty tricks way back in the day of Don Segretti, one of KKKarl's mentors. Karl now has the experience and the scope to pull dirty tricks of a far greater scale. And he doesn't have to personally be involved in them. Just train up a bunch of rabidly loyal minions and give them carte blanche.

[Blue_In_AK]

6. What's up with Jim Lampley lately?

Sir, I salute you!