A recent New York Times article about the Libby trial is another example of their weird world view. Leave it to the New York Times to pronounce something "corrupt" and then embrace it as "crucial."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 world view.
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 at times illicit traffic in secrets carried out among Washington officials and those who report on their doings" -- is an evil necessary for democracy. "Leaks, backgrounders, favors, masked attribution: For decades, journalists and government officials have ... manipulated one another and, to some extent, readers too," the magazine noted. "It's not pretty -- as the Libby trial revealed. But it's crucial."
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