you make my head hurt, but in a good way.
i’m gonna edit a teeny-tiny bit of your entry though my dear (yes, i’m that bold). last line, last two words should actually read: Korea. Gadzooks!
you’re welcome.

you make my head hurt, but in a good way.
i’m gonna edit a teeny-tiny bit of your entry though my dear (yes, i’m that bold). last line, last two words should actually read: Korea. Gadzooks!
you’re welcome.

honey, if I had the energy, i’d be exclaiming everything. at this point, just getting it out of my head is all the work I can handle.
KOREA! GAD-FREAKING-ZOOOOOOOOOOOOKS!!!!!
aw hell you’re right again. don’t you ever get tired of infallability?

I’m with you on this one...sort of. Our free and independant press is vitally important and perhaps more endangered right now by corporate ownership than government regulation...at the same time I do think we have to be very, very careful where and how we draw this line. I do worry though about a press that doesn’t have the common sense to NOT report something, the commone sense and decency (not something Robert Novack sufferes from I imagine) to report the criminal disclosure to an appropriate person. Hell ANY Democrat in Congress would had done just fine it seems to me. But therein lies part of the problem here...this was ALL about politics and the journalist who first disclosed this info is NOT in jail and yet I’ve heard nothing about him selling out his sources...the only thing I’ve heard is that it’s likely that Robert Novack lied to the Federal Proscutors about who his source was...isn’t THAT a crime?

I think that it all comes down to accountability—if you say that you have a “source” who is telling you things, then the editors need to ensure that the people DO exist and that what they say is verifiable… so we don’t get more reporters just making shit up. But at the same time, there is no way to get the “truth” out without holding certain sources as confidential. I mean, who KNOWS what the White House is REALLY up to? No one can say, and those who can say, won’t… mostly because they’re chicken or are being paid to shut up. That’s sad. Why can’t we just have more transparency in things? We the People have a right to know what’s being said and done in “our” name and not just in “their” interest.
It’s pathetic that there is no room in this country for dissidence, which is needed so badly, especially now… *sigh*

Just an aside note, (and I don’t remember their names either) but the reporter with the last second reprieve claimed to have received a phone call from his source, giving him permission (in these circumstances)to disclose his/her identity to the officials. It was not reported (here in Florida at least) that he violated source confidentiality.

Excellent post, as always Dan. I was a journalism major and cherish free speech, but as you said, not at the expense of the well fare of society. It would be an interesting movie or book to see someone from today’s era go back in time to when they were writing the Constitution to see if the Founding Fathers would’ve written it differently.
