Shall we step back for a moment and stop lambasting Newsweek and crying out about evil terrorist unpatriotic liberals for a moment?

The article in Newsweek that caused this was tiny. It wasn't expected to cause this much damage. It was one of the senior reporters, what probably happened was he got a little sloppy on the reporting or misconstrued what the witness had said. Pretty easy to do, no big deal. What happened was it was used as a rallying point for more violence.

It's really not that hard to do, if you write as many stories as that person has you're bound to slip up, especially if its a less important one that's going to just be a little sidebar or whatever. If the witnesses say something like that, you write it down. If the witnesses back down later, you're kinda screwed. If you find it so "contemptible", why don't you go out and persue journalism? I'm sure we could use more people who care passionately about bringing unbiased news to the world and getting paid crap for it.