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Article: Scandals great and small.(MEDIA)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- June 17, 2005
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May was the month of scandals, like Newsweek's Quran in the toilet and the New York Post's display of prisoner Saddam Hussein in his jockey shorts. Then there were less noticed flaps, like the secret Downing Street memo before the war and The New York Times series on the torture murders of prisoners in Afghanistan. And finally the scandal of the administration's and, in part, the press' reaction to these stories.
Press critics call this the new crisis of media credibility.
For several reasons, a month after the event, the Quran-toilet story still lives. First, because columnists and TV pundits keep talking about what went wrong; the media examine ...