lørdag 3. juli 2010

Tortur: Pressens feighet

Waterboarding has been the subject of press attention for over a century. Examining the four newspapers with the highest daily circulation in the country, we found a significant and sudden shift in how newspapers characterized waterboarding. From the early 1930s until the modern story broke in 2004, the newspapers that covered waterboarding almost uniformly called the practice torture or implied it was torture: The New York Times characterized it thus in 81.5% (44 of 54) of articles on the subject and The Los Angeles Times did so in 96.3% of articles (26 of 27). By contrast, from 2002‐2008, the studied newspapers almost never referred to waterboarding as torture. The New York Times called waterboarding torture or implied it was torture in just 2 of 143 articles (1.4%). The Los Angeles Times did so in 4.8% of articles (3 of 63). The Wall Street Journal characterized the practice as torture in just 1 of 63 articles (1.6%).

Utdrag fra: Neal Desai, Andre Pineda, Majken Runquist, Mark Fusunyan (2010),
Torture at Times: Waterboarding in the Media. Harvard Student Paper. April 2010. PDF her.



Selv NY Times var Bush-vennlig.

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2 kommentarer:

Anonym sa...

Nå har du skrevet fornuftige ting helt siden 27. juni.Selv om posten din på akkurat den datoen riktignok var legendarisk poengløs. Bare du holder deg unna innvandring, islam og frp og slik, så høres du jo rasjonell ut. Fortsett slik.

Konrad sa...

Jeg setter også pris på kommentarer med poeng og argumentasjon. Dagens kommentar fra deg er legendarisk poengløs. Kom gjerne tilbake når du faktisk har noe å melde.