Friday, December 16, 2005

Spies Like US

From today's New York Times:

Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts

This article could also have been entitled "Bush Violates Several US Laws", but that would a real journalist's headline.

How pathetic is the New York Times, that they have to include this paragraph in their story:

The White House asked The New York Times not to publish this article, arguing that it could jeopardize continuing investigations and alert would-be terrorists that they might be under scrutiny. After meeting with senior administration officials to hear their concerns, the newspaper delayed publication for a year to conduct additional reporting. Some information that administration officials argued could be useful to terrorists has been omitted.

"All the News The Bush Administration Tells Us Is Fit to Print"

Time for another panel on blogging ethics.

Journalism is dead. Long live the embedded corporate media.

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