A disgruntled soldier shops a story about the murder of three Guantanamo detainees to the media. His story is deemed implausible by 60 Minutes, ABC, NBC, and the New York Times. (None of whom, I might add, have shown any great reluctance to run weakly sourced stories attacking the military.) But the soldier persists, and eventually, despite the inconsistencies in his story, he gets Harper’s Magazine to run with it.
The resulting article wins the National Magazine Award for Reporting.
My question is, what is the award grading articles on? Obviously not the quality of the reporting.
(Via Instapundit.)
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