Absurdity Runs Wild Within the Media

CALLING ALL CORPORATE MEDIA DRONES -- IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP FROM YOUR COMAS...

The following is for every irresponsible newspaper and television station in the country that got their stories wrong when blaming Newsweek for starting the riots in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff says a report from Afghanistan suggests that rioting in Jalalabad on May 11 was not necessarily connected to press reports that the Quran might have been desecrated in the presence of Muslim prisoners held in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ...

...Myers said an after-action report provided by U.S. Army Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry, commander of the Combined Forces in Afghanistan, indicated that the political violence was not, in fact, connected to the magazine report.

Every story claiming Newsweek "sparked" the riots uses quotes from Richard Myers while completely leaving out what he said above. Too bad they didn't get confirmation.

Have you ever wondered what it feels like to be nothing more than a machine operated by the White House? If so, contact your local newspaper and ask them.