h/t The Raw Story

The phrase “better late than never” can not apply, Young Turks host Cenk Uygur said on Friday, to the New York Times’ recent decision to begin using the word “torture” to refer to U.S. interrogations against terrorism suspects.

“We expect better from the New York Times,” Uygur said before referring to media coverage of the U.S. war against Iraq. “Television was a disaster. Everybody was cheerleading, literally waving the flag in all their graphics, but we expect television to be fairly dumb. We expect them to bow their heads as part of the huge conglomerates that they are. At the time, NBC is owned by GE, which is a defense contractor, and it goes on and on and on.”

Read more here: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/09/cenk-uygur-rips-the-new-york-times-for-finally-using-the-word-torture-to-describe-torture/