I could spend eight hours a day going over news articles and correcting either errors of fact, or much more often, skewed interpretations. The administration can't be putting these fires out all day either. The reports are out there--reporters can read them.
News organizations, particularly highly leftist ones like Reuters and the BBC, will jump on something long before the whole story is sorted out. Similar things happen with right-wing news sources, which is why I am leery about sites like Newsmax or Worldnet Daily, and try to go past them to original material. It's just a good idea to be careful about these things.
As I said, I haven't seen the rock story anywhere else, and I suspect it's a misinterpretation of one of the real cases, where a soldier shot an inmate who threw a rock at him (ruled as of this time as unjustified homicide.)
The "48 hour rule," i.e. giving a really controversial story two days to settle down before running with the details, is a good rule of thumb. Sometimes even that isn't enough.
A good example where the 48 hour rule would have come in handy on the other side of the aisle was the "Kerry affair" story.
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- Another opinion on what real torture is.
- Experts weigh in on what constitutes illegal abuse.
- I think Bowser knows exactly what real torture is
- Making them play naked twister isn't torture.
- How does clubbing a prisoner to death with a rock affect your sensibilities?
- And there will be a backlash