Some of my best friends are journalists by Hugh Hewitt
The Bear on Jun 30 2006 at 7:24 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
I have been a journalist for nearly two decades. Journalism, as the late Michael Kelly, is a craft and an honorable one.
But the journalism nation is made up of many tribes, and some of them have declared war on the global war on terror and on the Bush Administration. Two of them in particular – the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times (the “Times Two”) crossed a line last week that had only previously been crossed by the former, and then only in the past six months: the knowing publication of secrets, the release of which was not only illegal – that has happened often in our history – but which obviously could possibly assist terrorists in eluding capture.
At least two members of the Times Two staffs have gone on record as admitting that the publication was motivated by competitive pressures.
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You cannot balance what you have not weighed, and you cannot weigh what you cannot measure.
Neither of the Times Two possesses the capacity, background, experience or learning to judge the extent of the assistance they have rendered terrorists.
No “expert” they could consult would be in a position to contradict the government’s strong assertions of the danger they were putting innocents in via their recklessness.
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