Comments on: NYT: In Manning case, "Jailers Become the Accused"

By: rocketpjs

rocketpjs — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 04:12:00 +0000

Since when does the US pay attention to international anything? Just so long as the tankers keep moving, or someone’s wedding party is getting bombed.

By: bkad

bkad — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 03:06:00 +0000

Thanks for posting that. I would have otherwise largely taken the NYT at face value in this case.

By: Jonathan Roberts

Jonathan Roberts — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:22:00 +0000

Looks like plenty of people did – he won by a huge margin. It would be great to see him get the Nobel Peace Prize though, Manning has done a lot more than some of the more famous recent laureates that we could mention (and at far greater personal cost). It would be interesting to see the US deal with their own political prisoner when he is internationally recognized as such.

By: DisGuest

DisGuest — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:18:00 +0000

Do you have a link?

By: Matt Grice

Matt Grice — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 22:25:00 +0000

Vote for Manning for Person of the Year in the Guardian poll – - if you give a shit.

By: Paul Renault

Paul Renault — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:11:00 +0000

If there’s ever an explanation was to why fewer and fewer well-informed people don’t refuse to spend money on conventional news sources, here it is.

It’s frustrating that this trial is so poorly and misleadingly covered – even by the CBC News.

But they are so good at repeating the politicians’ talking points, eh?

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:10:00 +0000

Except of course if the Times actually had someone attending the trial there for more than a work day, they would know the article contains numerous miss-statements about the case. For those details see this blog posting by Kevin Gosztola:

New York Times Finally Shows Up to Cover Bradley Manning Proceedings (And Their Story Is Sloppy)
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/12/08/the-new-york-times-finally-shows-up-to-cover-bradley-manning-proceedings-and-their-story-is-sloppy/