He's pretty damning about the lack of journalistic professionalism and ethics involved in the Sherrod story. Seems pretty justified to me. I worry quite a lot about the state of journalism in this country. Reminds me of Jefferson's quote:
"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them." --Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787. ME 6:57
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