I was in the car this morning when ABC Radio News told me that the woman General in charge of Abu Ghraib prison is saying out loud that she is being scapegoated. Others, it seems, ran the interrogations. The General also said, according to ABC's Michael Barr, that she was "...as shocked than anyone else."
The quote marks are mine, intended to tell you that these are the reporter's words. (I wrote them down even as I drove.)
They are, I presume, a paraphrase of the General's words. Not a quote from the General.
Now, please read them again:
"..as shocked than anyone else."
Most consumers of media product - you know that citizens no longer count and we no longer get news - most consumers of media product think a lot about the political bias of newspeople and their organizations. Or whether they are honest.
I offer what Mr. Barr of ABC said as evidence that they are, first and foremost, illiterate.