The Legacy Media And Torture, Ctd

Adam Serwer's on the cowardice of the American press differs from mine:

I think it's actually the conventions of journalism that are at
fault here. As soon as Republicans started quibbling over the
definition of torture, traditional media outlets felt compelled to
treat the issue as a "controversial" matter, and in order to appear as
though they weren't taking a side, media outlets treated the issue as
unsettled, rather than confronting a blatant falsehood.

But this doesn't work...