It's hard to keep up with "the media" coverage of American torture.
What is already emerging, however, is the media's recognition that they can mine the issue for gold.
What else is to be made of offering a Face The Nation interview to Cheney? Of Yoo, offered space in Philly? I didn't recognize it at first, until I read the bizarre piece by Richard Cohen in the WaPo.
To be sure, they are being facilitated by a lack of an official inquiry, but still ...
Separately, I had to listen to some Cheney booster talking about the brave men and women who tortured for the CIA. Listen, respect where it is due, but let's not forget that we outsourced this stuff. Operatives were paid huge sums and took on not much risk at all, so far as they knew. That's even before we decide that interrogation requires a special kind of courage. Does it?
Really, it's a variation and resucitation of the "you don't support the troops meme", right?
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Media Decides That "Torture" Sells Papers
