got this short memo from nbc whom I had written a short memo about

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the Koran issue yesterday.

Hello, xxx...

The obvious difference between the earlier stories on Koran desecration and the Newsweek story is that earlier reports were based entirely on unsubstantiated DETAINEE accounts, while the Newsweek story quoted a senior US government official who said the US military itself had confirmed the abuse, based on its own internal report. That (if correct) would have been a FIRST and that resonated in the Muslim world. But it wasn't correct. I agree with you that where there's smoke, there's fire. But don't short-change the media by understating the meltdown or the sincere soul-searching my colleagues at Newsweek are going through right now.

Regards,

Jim Maceda
NBC News

-----Original Message-----
From: xxxx
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 4:52 AM
To: Miklaszewski, Jim (NBC Universal)

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1. Maceda just can't accept that Isikoff was lied to. If not initially,

later, by his high gov't source when the source retracted the story. That's a story that no one in the MSM wants to face up to, and we won't hear a word about it. Just a lot of BS about soul-searching.

Jeez.:eyes:

Thanks for trying. :thumbsup: