When a Story Goes Terribly Wrong. Richard Lacayo.
by Lacayo, Richard; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 52Global Issues. Publisher: Time, 2005ISSN: 1522-3221;.Subject(s): Confidential communications -- Press | Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba) | Journalistic ethics | Koran | Muslims -- Attitudes | Newsweek (Periodical) | Prisoners -- Treatment | Prisoners of war | RiotsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Journalists strive to be influential. But there can't be many who would hope to affect events the way Newsweek has in Afghanistan. The anti-American street protests that erupted there earlier this month [May 2005]--after the magazine reported that a Pentagon investigation would support claims that guards at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet--left as many as 17 dead and scores injured." (TIME) The author examines "how Newsweek botched its report on prisoner abuse--and helped set off an anti-U.S. firestorm."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: When a Story Goes Terribly Wrong, May 30, 2005; pp. 60-62.
"Journalists strive to be influential. But there can't be many who would hope to affect events the way Newsweek has in Afghanistan. The anti-American street protests that erupted there earlier this month [May 2005]--after the magazine reported that a Pentagon investigation would support claims that guards at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet--left as many as 17 dead and scores injured." (TIME) The author examines "how Newsweek botched its report on prisoner abuse--and helped set off an anti-U.S. firestorm."
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