I'm just curious: Has any gasbag on cable suggested Newsweek was right?

[BurtWorm]

Or are they all just droning on and on and on about what's wrong with the media?

(As if I had to ask.)

[NorCalDem]

1. I've seen others posting here

that there actually were a few in the media whose response to the WH wasn't just the proverbial "how high". I've seen Keith Olbermann talk about it, supposedly Anderson Cooper as well. Does it really matter though, even if blaming the rise in insurgency on Newsweek doesn't fly, Rove will cook up something extra devious next. We have only until tomorrow to wait for the next big-fake news story :)

[whistle]

2. Don Imus sure droned on and on about what's wrong with the media

...in his morning TV show

[LetsGoMurphys]

3. keith

olberman. He pointed out that the story has been written several times before and never disputed until now. the riots were obviously not a result of this newsweek story. the bush administration needs someone to be the scapegoat. this time they choose newsweek.

[noamnety]

5. He also mentioned

that it was run through the administration before it was published, and they didn't object.

Of course this is a thread asking if any gasbags had mentioned it ... so I'd have to answer no.

[Imalittleteapot]

8. Just like the Rather story. Administration didn't object to that

one either.

[UCLA Dem]

4. not that i've heard so far.

[cestpaspossible]

6. I think pretty much everyone in the world realizes the report was true.

Note that all Newsweek's 'retraction' says is that it was not uncovered by an internal Pentagon investigation. It says absolutely nothing about the underlying story being untrue.

[Jacobin]

7. Of course not. It wasn't in Rove's fax to them

[me b zola]

9. Besides the GREAT report from KO

David Shuster (sp) who reports for Hardball did a pretty good report, however, once he was done talking, tweety interviewed his guests as if he had never heard any of the facts that Shuster just reported--the rest of Hardball was the same misrepresentation of the facts that we come to expect from tweety. The disconnect was bizaar, to say the least.

[DeepModem Mom]

10. kick

[wiggs]

11. Surprised. Newshour with Lehrer focus on sidestory.

I haven't watched these shows for a long time. Thought Jim Lehrer was unbiased. The piece on the Newsweek story focused solely on the retraction and on the use of single source contributions and how bad they are.

Not one question or speculation on whether or not the previous stories of Koran abuse were true or whether or not Newsweek was pressured or why the source changed his mind or whether or not the story was reasonable. The two guest were talking only about media responsibility.

Ironic, isn't it?

Media whitewash using criticism of media.