Times off the trolley

Again!

Ever since its secret domestic wiretapping program was exposed, the Bush administration has depicted it as a narrow examination of calls made by and to terrorism suspects. But its refusal to provide any details about the extent of the spying has raised doubts. Now there is more reason than ever to be worried--and angry--about how wide the government's web has been reaching.

When you have such fools in control of major national newspapers who can't be bothered to question whether they should report classified information, i.e. violate the law, and then portray the information dishonestly and inaccurately, they damage the First Amendment. The whole point of Freedom of the Press is to protect robust public debate, primarily over poltical issues. Liberal judges and j-schools have added the baloney about the press being a watchdog on government, but who is the watchdog on the press when it's viewpoint is so dominated by such narrow band of the political spectrum.

All you have to do to confirm this is to hear other journalists sneer at bloggers, talk radio and Fox News, or more outrageously, speak of them as some kind of threat or evil conspiracy. What's ironic is that they speak of Richard Nixon as paranoid, wheh they behave just like him.