Guantanamo
Moral Obtuseness, Guantanamo, Boko Haram, and the Media
This morning's BBC’s NewsHour show opened with a news judgment reflecting a genuinely odd moral calculus.
At the end of the show’s headlines section, announcer James Menendez says: “coming up later in the program today, our West Africa correspondent . . . is on the shores of Lake Chad, where survivors---many of them missing family members---have been gathering in the wake of last week’s deadly attacks by Boko Haram.” That, however, could wait until the second half of the show.