FAIR, UN Torture Report: ABC See US as Victim, Washington Post Uses Euphemisms and more

“ABC Makes US the Victim in CIA Torture Report Story” and “Washington Post Does Not Call It Torture When We Torture”

By Jim Naureckas FAIR.org December 10, 2014

There’s an unfortunate impulse, when you or someone you’re close to does something wrong, to turn the situation around so that you can seem like the victim. That ugly human defense mechanism was on display on ABC‘s nightly newscast for two days running as the network previewed the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s torture program.

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