Time to Change The 'Back Channel'

Media is a Plural by Rory O'Connor | Mar. 26, 2007 (Opinion)

Leave it to the New York Times to pronounce something "corrupt" and then wholeheartedly embrace it as "crucial."

This week's Sunday magazine piece by Max Frankel is the most recent and stunning example of the Times' weird worldview. In a cover story, the paper's former executive editor concludes that "the real lesson" of the recent Scooter Libby trial is that Washington's "black market in information" -- which the Times defines as "the messy and ... Full Story »

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 by David Patterson - Mar. 27, 2007

The Priviledge of Public service. In the elitistcentric cycle we're in the Emphasis seems to be more on the "priviledge" rather than the service. Even less the public. In good OpEd writing the standard is the righteous indignation. Is it justified? Is the writing persuasive? In this example my answer is yes to both.

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