Newsweek: The New Pravda?

Perhaps we need a samizdat press to counter the MSM---oh wait, we've already got the blogosphere, which has the inestimable advantage that when bloggers maliciously screw up, nobody dies.

Michelle Malkin quotes this shocking admission from Newsweek:

Last Friday, a top Pentagon spokesman told us that a review of the probe cited in our story showed that it was never meant to look into charges of Qur'an desecration. The spokesman also said the Pentagon had investigated other desecration charges by detainees and found them "not credible." Our original source later said he couldn't be certain about reading of the alleged Qur'an incident in the report we cited, and said it might have been in other investigative documents or drafts. Top administration officials have promised to continue looking into the charges, and so will we. But we regret that we got any part of our story wrong, and extend our sympathies to victims of the violence and to the U.S. soldiers caught in its midst.

Hmm, seems "Spikey" Isikoff took a lot more care with his sources back when they only correctly impugned the conduct of a Democratic President.

Powerline has more.

Looks like Newsweek's going to be the next part of the MSM to feel the awesome power of a fully-operational blogosphere.

Couldn't have happened to a bigger bunch of hacks, imo.