news-bleak

* on cbsnews, they were doing a bit on the koran toilet story and newsweek 'retracting' the report - and they suggested that there was no such toilet-flushing in their records, apart from when a *detainee* stuffed his toilet with the koran to block it up - holy shit. they are gonna get into more trouble - perhaps thats the point

* heres a list of media reports talking about korans going down the toilet in the last 3 years - why the fuss now? http://corrente.blogspot.com/2005/05/flushing-newsweek.html

* lots of people are wondering why newsweek is being decapitated - it smells like rathergate - in both cases the stories were offered to the egadmin in advance and they didnt have any comment. heres conyers, and georgia10, and ron, for starters

* when the beeb is doing the koran-in-the-crapper story, they show a copy of newsweek with GeorgeWashington on the frontcover, but when cnn does the story, they show a different cover - do they have different covers in europe?