McClatchy's Guantanamo series
Ted Vaden, public editor at the N&O, writes about the strong reaction that paper got after publishing the McClatchy series on Guantanamo detainees.
Ted notes with surprise that the series didn't get more negative reaction. I note with surprise that we published the first two days of the series on the front page, but didn't get much reaction, positive or negative.
Adam Reilly of the Boston Phoenix notes that the series has flown under the radar of the agenda setters in the national media.
As of this writing, for example -- and despite both the aforementioned Supreme Court decision and a new Physicians for Human Rights report that accuses the Bush administration of torture and war crimes -- the New York Times hasn't mentioned "Guantánamo: Beyond the Law," even on its op-ed page. The Washington Post has, but only online. The various network news programs, including the Sunday-morning political talk shows, seem uninterested. And despite the fact that US detention policy has emerged as a major point of contention between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama, neither the candidates themselves nor their campaigns have publicly discussed McClatchy’s findings.