New York Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane deserves a lot of credit today for his piece "The Other Torture Debate", in which he notes the mealy-mouthed way his own paper has treated the issue over the years and makes a very worthy suggestion regarding a future editorial path.
With the death of Osama bin Laden providing a new context for the discussion, Brisbane very quickly drills down on the way in which the Times has something of a double standard for when the word "torture" can be used, and when it must give way to trendy euphemism:
The Times published a strong editorial headlined "The Torture Apologists," which argued that while there is no "final answer" to whether information gleaned through torture was instrumental, there could be no justification for using such "immoral and illegal" tactics.
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