(Blog Post) If anyone ever tells you that they don't understand what is meant be "stenography journalism" -- or ever insists that America is plagued by a Liberal Media -- you can show them this article from today's Washington Post and, by itself, it should clear Full Story »
Posted by Beth Wellington - via Jay Rosen, Memeorandum, Digg, Glenn Greenwald
Greenwald picks apart WaPo's piece on Khalid Sheik Muhammad. He's effective at attacking it from several angles, showing how the piece is logically flawed, and how it is out of touch with other publications.
What makes the Post’s breathless vindication of torture all the more journalistically corrupt is that the document on which it principally bases these claims — the just-released 2004 CIA Inspector General Report — provides no support whatsoever for the view that torture produced valuable intelligence, despite the fact that it was based on the claims of CIA officials themselves. Ironically, nobody has done a better job this week of demonstrating how true that is than the Post’s own Greg Sargent — who, in post after post this week — dissected the IG Report to demonstrate that it provides no evidence for Cheney’s claims that torture helped obtain valuable intelligence.
