On Monday afternoon, BBC News Online broke the story about the Supreme Court ruling on the suspects at Guantanamo Bay. They had the following to say on the matter:
The US Supreme Court has ruled that terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba can use the US legal system to challenge their detention.The six-to-three ruling is seen as a major blow to the Bush administration and could herald hundreds of appeals in US courts on behalf of the inmates
Source - BBC News Online
I then checked CNN to see what the american take on this very important bit of news was. The headline blared "Supreme Court substantially rules for Bush administration".
When I finally got round to writing up this little difference of opinion, it seems that CNN has had a change of heart, dropped the old headline, rewrote the story and now refers to the news as "A mixed verdict on the terror war." instead of "The Supreme Court delivered a partial victory to the Bush administration"
Google News is able to provide us with a glimpse of their hasty rewriting after they actually digested the contents of the story and stopped pandering to the administration:
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[ source - http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/06/28/scotus.enemy.combatants.ap/ ]
The critical point is now what happens to the UK folk in dentention.
If the UK Gov had bottle they would get the US Gov to follow the Geneva Convention but then our so called friend Donanld R would be in court.
Colin
Excellent example of the blatant censorship that governs the US media. No wonder nobody there has a f***in' clue what is going on in the rest of the world.