News updates: speedy, informative, and the teeniest bit biased...

With all the hullaballoo about NYT's implementing a new plan for charging readers, it should be noted that e-mail updates (morning, news alerts, evening, etc) remain free, and something I and many have been on board with for a while now. Around the same time of subscribing for NYT e-mails, I did the same for Washington Post - annoying during, say, primary elections, but more often an entertaining little look into the peculiarities and nuances and word choice, connotation, and focus. One look at tonight's news updates from both is more than enough to remind one of the importance of getting information from more than one source. heh...


E-mail update from NYTimes, sent at 8:54pm:


News Alert: Classified Military Files Offer New Insights About Guantanamo Detainees
A trove of more than 700 classified military documents provides new and detailed accounts of the men who have done time at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, and offers new insight into the evidence against the 172 men still locked up there. Military intelligence officials, in assessments of detainees written between February 2002 and January 2009, evaluated their histories and provided glimpses of the tensions between captors and captives. What began as a jury-rigged experiment after the 2001 terrorist attacks now seems like an enduring American institution, and the leaked files show why, by laying bare the patchwork and contradictory evidence that in many cases would never have stood up in criminal court or a military tribunal.


E-mail update from WaPo, sent at 9:29pm:


Breaking news: New documents reveal al-Qaeda leadership's actions on Sept. 11, 2001
A cache of intelligence assessments of nearly every detainee at Guantanamo Bay obtained by WikiLeaks presents new details of the whereabouts of al-Qaeda's core leadership on Sept. 11, and their movements afterward. The documents also offer some tantalizing glimpses into the whereabouts and operations of Osama bin Laden and his Egyptian deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.