{"id":1999,"date":"2005-05-25T21:44:11","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T02:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/newsweek-as-the-new-ministry-of-truth\/"},"modified":"2005-05-25T21:44:11","modified_gmt":"2005-05-26T02:44:11","slug":"newsweek-as-the-new-ministry-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/newsweek-as-the-new-ministry-of-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"newsweek as the new ministry of truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>several times i&#8217;ve had passing thoughts about this,  but today i finally stumbled into something that pretty much clinches what i was just going to speculate on.<\/p>\n<p>to make this brief&#8230; once upon a time, newsweek ran a story that included a bit about american interrogators doing unfriendly and disrespectful things to the koran.  then a bunch of people got upset.  and then some people died.  and then the bush administration got out in front of the world and said to the world &#8220;no way!  can&#8217;t be!&#8221;  and newsweek quickly took two steps backwards and said &#8220;ok, maybe we got some details wrong&#8221; and then &#8220;no, we were wrong about that whole flushing the koran thing.&#8221;  ultimately issuing a full retraction.<\/p>\n<p>i was going to speculate that newsweek caved under pressure from the aministration &#8211; perhaps under some sort of threat to cut off access.  i dunno.  just speculating.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=topNews&#038;storyID=8607804\">FBI memo reports Guantanamo guards flushing Koran<\/a> [reuters, 2005.05.25]<\/div>\n<p>An FBI agent wrote in a 2002 document made public on Wednesday that a detainee held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had accused American jailers there of flushing the Koran down a toilet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>so maybe there is something to this story after all.  and maybe newsweek shouldn&#8217;t jump so quickly into the arms of the bush administration.  i dunno.  just speculating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>several times i&#8217;ve had passing thoughts about this, but today i finally stumbled into something that pretty much clinches what i was just going to speculate on. to make this brief&#8230; once upon a time, newsweek ran a story that included a bit about american interrogators doing unfriendly and disrespectful things to the koran. then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}