Friday, July 15, 2005
Our Newest Op Ed
Did You Miss Media Arrogance Day, July 6th?
- By Warner Todd Huston
After the horrible bombings in London last week, the CIA outing story was sort of cast to the back pages, but now that the bombing story is cooling it is back. Because of these important real world news stories, stories that affect each of us, we all missed Media Arrogance Day which was apparently July 6th.
What is Media Arrogance Day? Glad you asked.
On July 6th, reporter Judith Miller of the New York Times was ordered to jail because she refused to tell Federal prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgereld, the identity of her source for the naming of active CIA agent and wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, Valerie Plame.
Miller and her compatriots in the Media spent all day on the 6th as well as the 7th gnashing their teeth, wearing sackcloth and ashes and wailing about how important they are and how they need a special law to protect only them. It has become popular among media types to feel more important than their readers and especially the people on whom they report, unfortunately........
Click HERE To Read On
- By Warner Todd Huston
After the horrible bombings in London last week, the CIA outing story was sort of cast to the back pages, but now that the bombing story is cooling it is back. Because of these important real world news stories, stories that affect each of us, we all missed Media Arrogance Day which was apparently July 6th.
What is Media Arrogance Day? Glad you asked.
On July 6th, reporter Judith Miller of the New York Times was ordered to jail because she refused to tell Federal prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgereld, the identity of her source for the naming of active CIA agent and wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, Valerie Plame.
Miller and her compatriots in the Media spent all day on the 6th as well as the 7th gnashing their teeth, wearing sackcloth and ashes and wailing about how important they are and how they need a special law to protect only them. It has become popular among media types to feel more important than their readers and especially the people on whom they report, unfortunately........
Click HERE To Read On
# posted by Publius @ 7/15/2005 02:00:00 AM 
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