This article (thanks BOTW) is astonishing in its inhumanity. If this is what passes for journailistic ethics, it's no wonder they're held in such low esteem. I've always been impressed by the pretensions of journalists who seem to claim Constitutional protection for themselves against criticism, as arrogate to themselves the sole role of personifying "the people's right to know," but interpreting that phrase to mean the people's right to know what we think they should know.

When one considers the life and example of Michael Kelly, this article takes on the feel of blasphemy, but then it's from the Boston Globe which also publishes the columns of James Carroll.

When I think of Boston, I think of John Adams and the birth of the American rebellion. What has happened to that heritage? Men without chests, indeed.