The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Tuesday, August 31, 2004
TIME Reporting: BLATANT Bias
A salute to The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler for coming up with this week's nomination for mainstream smear of the week:
This TIME Magazine article redefines the dregs of incoherent journalism.
The Verdict on Abu Ghraib
Pressure mounts on Rumsfeld
A report released last week places a share of the responsibility for the mistreatment of inmates at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison on the shoulders of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Though the report didn't single him out by name or call for his resignation, it concludes that a combination of too many prisoners and too few guards — as well as a confusing chain of command — generated a climate ripe for trouble that the Pentagon's leadership should have anticipated.
Look at that again. It starts with this:
A report released last week places a share of the responsibility for the mistreatment of inmates at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison on the shoulders of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Then follows with:
Though the report didn't single him out by name or call for his resignation, it concludes…
So even though the report singles out Rumsfeld exactly as often as Elvis Presley, Jimmy Hoffa, and King Henry VIII, TIME thinks it still places the share of responsibility on Rumsfeld. Either the report referred to him by saying "The older gentleman with glasses who held lots of press conferences with Air Force General Dick Myers," or else TIME is exploring the frontiers of journalistic overreach. Is TIME so busy that they're having their news written by the people who normally write astrology columns, or was this one churned out by a reporter on a mescaline induced vision quest?
Is further comment even necessary here?
This TIME Magazine article redefines the dregs of incoherent journalism.
The Verdict on Abu Ghraib
Pressure mounts on Rumsfeld
A report released last week places a share of the responsibility for the mistreatment of inmates at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison on the shoulders of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Though the report didn't single him out by name or call for his resignation, it concludes that a combination of too many prisoners and too few guards — as well as a confusing chain of command — generated a climate ripe for trouble that the Pentagon's leadership should have anticipated.
Look at that again. It starts with this:
A report released last week places a share of the responsibility for the mistreatment of inmates at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison on the shoulders of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Then follows with:
Though the report didn't single him out by name or call for his resignation, it concludes…
So even though the report singles out Rumsfeld exactly as often as Elvis Presley, Jimmy Hoffa, and King Henry VIII, TIME thinks it still places the share of responsibility on Rumsfeld. Either the report referred to him by saying "The older gentleman with glasses who held lots of press conferences with Air Force General Dick Myers," or else TIME is exploring the frontiers of journalistic overreach. Is TIME so busy that they're having their news written by the people who normally write astrology columns, or was this one churned out by a reporter on a mescaline induced vision quest?
Is further comment even necessary here?
