"Never before in my adult life have I been so ashamed of my profession, journalism."(continued) -
Philly.com "Attytood" writer Will Bunch
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Torture_study_reveals_appalling_cowardice_of_Americas_newspaper.html
< The report [by Harvard/Kennedy school of government, on United States use of waterboarding and other forms of torture] also notes that waterboarding had constantly been referred to as torture by newspapers when other nations did it, but when the United States did it in the 2000s, it was, to paraphrase Richard Nixon, not illegal. The study proves scientifically something we've been talking about here at Attytood since Day One, about the tragic consequences of the elevation of an unnatural notion of objectivity in which newspapers abandoned any core human values -- even when it comes to something as clear cut as torture -- to give equal moral weight to both sides of an not-so-debatable issue (not to mention treating scientific issues like climate changes in the same zombie-like manner).
Never before in my adult life have I been so ashamed of my profession, journalism.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Torture_study_reveals_appalling_cowardice_of_Americas_newspaper.html
