Sunday, January 3, 2010

Media spin

Read this sentence:

Republican leaders on Wednesday, seizing on the claim that ex-Guantánamo detainees were linked to the foiled Christmas Day terror attack, called on the White House to stop sending captives home to Yemen from the detention center in southeast Cuba.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1404093.html

It's not a "claim" "that ex-Guantánamo detainees were linked to the foiled Christmas Day terror attack". It's a fact. There's a difference.

A newspaper should know the difference, and not try to confuse the facts in order to protect their favorite politicians.

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