MSNBC: Newsweek magazine, under fire for publishing a story that led to deadly protests in Afghanistan, said Monday it was retracting its report that a military probe had found evidence of desecration of the Quran by U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay.

And you probably thought I was nuts when I asked “Who polices the media“…

I’d like to see a wave of pressure from everyone – politician and citizen alike – that forces the media to be a little more responsible about their stories. Make them think twice about responsibility and maybe fact check a little more, seeing as there are very real consequences to their newsstories. That’s what I’d like to see, but what I expect to see is a right wing push to censor or control the media and a left wing push to beat the right wing group with a cast iron copy of the Constitution, meaning that nothing will get done and the media will continue to run amuck.

Like I said to Chuck earlier today, “you can’t be a moderate anymore – if you’re moderate you’ve got no skin in the game and ya got no real feelings about a topic: unless you’re a radical, you don’t count anymore. I swear it gives me gout.”