Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Harvard Study: From 1930s-2004, NY Times called waterboarding torture in 81.5% of articles, LA Times in 96.3%. Yet from 2002‐2008, NYT did so in only 1.4% and LA Times in 4.8%. The WSJ? 1.6% (1 of 63 articles) and USA Today never called waterboarding torture or implied it was torture. [PDF]
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/publications/papers/torture_at_times_hks_students.pdf

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