NYT Fires Back Over Harvard Newspaper-Waterboarding Study
The New York Times says that a Harvard study on newspapers’ characterization of waterboarding is “misleading,” and that its op-ed pages have often featured writers who classify waterboarding as torture.
The study, “Torture at Times: Waterboarding in the Media,” contends that the Times called waterboarding torture or implied it was torture in 82% (44 of 54) of its articles before 2004. After the post-9/11 debate about waterboarding began, however, the percentage dropped to 1.4% (2 of 143).
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