Monday, July 11, 2005
"Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of the press...."
OK, can someone who follows this stuff closer than me explain a couple of things:
1. Why hasn't Robert Novak been arrested for his role in this "Plamegate" story while Judith Miller is heading to jail for not reavealing her source for a story she never wrote?
2. And what about Karl Rove? Shouldn't he at least be fired as Bush once promised he would do if it turned out the leak came out of the White House and face charges like Cooper and Miller have?
Is it me or is the Fifth Estate and the concept of Freedom of the Press in the US pretty much fccked though?
Fox now openly admits what everyone has long known anyway.
But they've got the rest of news media so shook that "Liberal" news pundits now endorse far right conservatives on the Supreme Court. WTF?!
"Today, when the government pays people to pose as newscasters, it's frightening that our democratic free press is offered no protection...." (from Andrew Bast's "My View" Op-Ed in today's Metro newspaper)
UPDATE: I guess I should have scanned my Kinja reader before posting because it seems all hell is breaking loose with this story now.
