Burning Newsweek

As our cousin FishbowlNY points out, it’s a pretty strong (and late) response to an item that the Pentagon’s known about for nearly three weeks.

This is the worst kind of journalistic flap–one that questions both the news organization’s veracity and its patriotism. Newsweek Editor Mark Whitaker’s column walks the line: “We regret that we got any part of our story wrong, and extend our sympathies to victims of the violence and to the U.S.