Examining the media coverage of the CIA torture report release; plus, the ethics of graphic imagery in the news media.
It has been an interesting week on The Listening Post production desk. Having agreed on a different story at the beginning of the week, it became clear fairly quickly that the biggest story to break this week was the release of the CIA Torture Report.
We did not know whether the report would actually be released because there has been numerous attempts at publication. But this time it was for real. It has taken the US Senate five years, $40m and a number of backtracks, but on December 9, the world learnt the extent to which the CIA used torture on terror suspects after the 9/11 attacks.
It was a damning 500-page report that confirmed that the CIA lied to its political overseers and to the media. It also lied about what it did and the usefulness of the information it obtained. For the US mainstream media, this post-9/11 story has been a test of their own independence. Many have not scored very highly.
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