[antimedia] antimedia: A reader tipped me off....

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Posted by antimedia:
A reader tipped me off....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1151463111.shtml


   ....to [1]an interesting take on the NY and LA Times' publishing of
   classified material -- they're living in an ivory tower, approaching
   the world from a theoretical perspective, completely detached from the
   impact of their work.

     Hugh Hewitt interviewed the LA Timesâ Washington bureau chief on
     the air today and I was struck by the academic, theoretical tone of
     the manâs answers. They went something like this:
     âDid you believe the government when they told you this would harm
     the war on terror?â
     âI neither believed them nor disbelieved them. I had no information
     upon which to base the decision.â
     No one talks like this. Even his speech pattern was off, as if he
     was thinking in another language and translating it before it
     passed his lips. It was as if the fellow was with us, but not of
     us. I could imagine him dining on ambrosia in some pagan temple and
     looking down upon the poor drones toiling away while he sat in
     judgment of them.

   Perhaps there's an academic component to their arguments, but I don't
   buy for one minute that they don't know exactly what they are doing
   and why they are doing it. They may actually believe their lie that
   they "did it for the people", but that very statement belies the idea
   that they might not realize that what they're doing has an impact.
   This was a cold, calculated power play designed to put the
   administration on the defensive and give the Democrats more ammunition
   for the fall elections. And it's not the first time that either paper
   has been guilty of just such behavior.

References

   1. http://ktcatspost.blogspot.com/2006/06/compromising-national-security-from.html