Is this the Friday news dump?

[jasmeel]

US acknowledges torture at Guantanamo; in Iraq, Afghanistan - UN

http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/afx/2005/06/24/afx2110388.html

<snip> GENEVA (AFX) - Washington has, for the first time, acknowledged to the United Nations that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in Guantanamo Bay, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq, a UN source said.

UN sources said this is the first time the world body has received such a frank statement on torture from US authorities. <snip>

Will this get any attention?

[eleny]

1. yes

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Yep, in preparation for the release of the photos

[jasmeel]

3. Will that also be on a Friday?? Or is there a set date?n/t

[kliljedahl]

9. Of course it's a Friday

The 30th before a Holiday weekend, what'd you expect?


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[chalky]

4. Have you put this on LBN yet?

God knows we can't count on the CMW to raise the profile on this.
All I got left is LBN and The Daily Show.

[jasmeel]

6. It's there, I just checked

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1577637&mesg_id=1579100

:toast:

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. This has been on Forbes for 8 hours

according to Google News, but has only been picked up by 3 Middle East sources (Middle East Online, al Jazeera, and the Lebanon Daily Star).

Time to use that media blaster, I think.

[jasmeel]

7. Do you have a link to the media blaster?

I think one of the keys to the Friday news dump is that people are less attentive to the news over the weekend. Therefore if the media covered this this weekend, it won't get much attn. I still think it's important to blast it though.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Here

I've never used it (I'm not American anyway, so I can't really claim the media listed as 'local' to me).

http://www.democraticunderground.com/cu/cu.php?az=blaster