Washington Post and (lack of) Transparency

July 12, 2010

Glenn Greenwald writes today about a disturbing interaction he had with the Washington Post, trying to follow up on their coverage of the WikiLeaks / Bradley Manning case.

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Is the NY Times complicit in torture?

July 11, 2010

In 2004, the NY Times changed how it refers to water boarding in news stories. As the graph above shows, for nearly 70 years, the Times referred to water boarding as torture and then all of a sudden, stopped doing so.
The graph and insight are from an April 2010 study by Harvard’s Kennedy School of [...]

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