Torture at the Times.

• Position: No Comment - Waterboarding - Brief article

A newly released study from students at Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy examines how waterboarding has been handled by America's four largest newspapers over the past 100 years. The papers consistently referred to it as "torture"--until the U.S. government began openly using it and insisting that it was not torture during the Bush Administration. "By contrast, from...