Judy Miller and Bob Woodward: fouling your own nest

Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald indicted I. Lewis ''Scooter" Libby Jr. on criminal charges, including obstruction of justice, making a false statement and perjury in the CIA leak investigation. The press indicted itself on grounds of coziness, self-interest, and dishonesty.

i've never doubted the coziness, self-interest, and dishonesty... what i had retained some small amount of faith in was that, WITHIN the media establishment, journalists would, in order to not foul their own nest, respect the need for their superiors to know what they were up to... judy and bob have shown that the need to maintain insider status trumps the integrity of the masthead that provides the ability to gain that status in the first place...

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