Quote of the Week



The blogosphere has been buzzing the last couple of days concerning the decision of both the New York Times and Los Angeles Times to once again become the arbiters of what is in the best interest of the security of the American people. You know...instead of those people entrusted with that responsibility via the Constitution?

The most revealing quote on the subject comes from uber-blogger Glenn Reynolds, but not interestingly enough from his blog. Glenn was on Hugh Hewitt's radio show Friday and provided an extremely apt analogy, which exposes the moral vacuum that is the 'Fourth Estate'
The press is very hard on other industries that enrich themselves at the public expense. But this is just the equivalent of dumping toxic waste into a river in order to make more money. Other people suffer, they get rich.

This is probably the best description I have seen in a long while of the hypocritical footing on which the press stands, especially when it comes to covering national security issues. They make the argument that release of these stories is in the "public interest", because Americans need to know what their government is doing. However, they seem to forget that in the 21st Century, whatever is broadcast to the American people is also broadcast to the entire world, including our enemies.

I am not sure how the press can forget this. But I must assume they are forgetting that point, since the alternative is that they don't care if our enemies know how we are trying to fight them, and that should be too unfortunate to consider.....

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin has inspired a great photoshopping contest....


Posted: Sat - June 24, 2006 at 12:02 PM          

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