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Thursday, May 1, 2008
Nary a peep
I don’t know whether Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein was ever associated with terrorists in Iraq.
Hussein was held by the U.S. military for two years but was never brought to trial before being released two weeks ago, presumably because the military finally determined there was no case.
I do know that during those two years both Hussein and the Associated Press were savaged, viciously, by the right-wing blogoshpere, whose members became huge megaphones for the military.
Here’s a good take on what has happened since Hussein was released. This blogger quite rightly wonders why the right-wing bloggers are so quiet now.
Those of us in the mainstream media hear similar complaints when occasionally someone who has been charged with a crime has the charges dropped. We try to keep track of those things and report them when they happen. Sometimes we miss one, and we get a call or an e-mail wondering why we haven’t reported that charges have been dropped against someone. When that happens we report it.
