Newsweek Urged to Do More to Repair Damage - Yahoo! News
What else can they do? How about "outing" their source at the Pentagon for starters. Somebody burned them good, and I for one would be interested to know if it was a WH plant.

WASHINGTON - The White House says Newsweek took a "good first step" by retracting its story that U.S. investigators found evidence interrogators at Guantanamo Bay desecrated the Quran, but it wants the magazine to do more to repair damage caused by the article.

Newsweek on Monday retracted the report in its May 9 issue after officials in the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department criticized its publication and its use of an anonymous source. Protests in Afghanistan, where more than a dozen people died and scores were injured in rioting, and demonstrations elsewhere in the Muslim world were blamed on the article.

McClellan said a retraction was only "a good first step" and said Newsweek should try to set the record straight by "clearly explaining what happened and how they got it wrong, particularly to the Muslim world, and pointing out the policies and practices of our military."

Um, Scottie, are you sure that you want them to "point out the practices of our military" in regards to interrogation techniques? No, I don't think you do. What a ludicrous statement.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, traveling home from Iraq, said, "It's appalling that this story got out there.

"I do think it's done a lot of harm," Rice said. "Of course, 16 people died but it's also done a lot of harm to America's efforts" to demonstrate tolerance and breed goodwill in the Muslim world.

"The sad thing was that there was a lot of anger that got stirred by a story that was not very well founded," Rice said.

U.S. officials did not deny the report when it first appeared.

"I hope that everybody will step back and take a look at how they handled this — everybody," Rice said. "We're always trying to improve our ability to deal with both reality when there is something like Abu Ghraib and when there is rumor or misinformation, we're trying to deal better with those circumstances, too."

And here, Condi tries the all too familiar tactic of tying two phrases together in a sentence-"Abu Ghraib" and "rumor and misinformation"- so they appear to go together. Think "Saddam" and "9/11". Clever girl. Let the spin begin. Pretty soon all the reports of torture will be doubted.

"People lost their lives. People are dead," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said. "People need to be very careful about what they say, just as they need to be careful about what they do."

Well, Don, I just can't improve on that one. I'll let you run with that.

Burn your source, Newsweek. I'm not kidding. The concept of "free press" is at stake here. Screw these "unnamed sources". It's beginning to look like a concentrated effort to destroy the credibility of "the press", and quite frankly, they don't need any help in that department.

BTW, here's another long list of Koran abuse reports, one dating back to 2003. This is not a new story, but if you listen to the American MSM, you'd think it was.

Incredible.