{"id":187566,"date":"2011-05-17T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/05\/17\/the-new-york-times-is-called-out-on-what-it-calls-torture\/"},"modified":"2011-05-17T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T01:51:00","slug":"the-new-york-times-is-called-out-on-what-it-calls-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/05\/17\/the-new-york-times-is-called-out-on-what-it-calls-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times is Called Out On What it Calls Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/15\/opinion\/15pubed.htm\">its own Ombudsman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>The Times should use the term \u201ctorture\u201d more directly, using it on first reference when the discussion is about \u2014 and there\u2019s no other word for it \u2014 torture. The debate was never whether Bin Laden was found because of brutal interrogations: it was whether he was found because of torture. More narrowly, the word is appropriate when describing techniques traditionally considered torture, waterboarding being the obvious example. Reasonable fairness can be achieved by adding caveats that acknowledge the Bush camp\u2019s view of its narrow legal definition.<\/p>\n<p>This approach avoids the appearance of mincing words and is well grounded in Americans\u2019 understanding of torture in the historical and moral sense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fact that our media still consider people who think that it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Yoo#Legal_opinions\">OK to crush a child&#8217;s testicles to pressure their parent<\/a> (John Yoo) to be acceptable as regular editorial contributors (to be fair, in the Philly Inky, not the Gray Lady) indicates that the idea of telling the truth has left the lexicon of so-called journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By its own Ombudsman: The Times should use the term \u201ctorture\u201d more directly, using it on first reference when the discussion is about \u2014 and there\u2019s no other word for it \u2014 torture. The debate was never whether Bin Laden was found because of brutal interrogations: it was whether he was found because of torture. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1129,1130,1064,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-language","category-media","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}