Thunderpants should probably duct tape his head together, lest it explode.
To wit, the New York Times Public Editor.
Bob Woodward, who wrote about secret operations in Pakistan in his recent book “Obama’s Wars,” described for me the competing priorities in play in this situation. On one hand, he said, the Davis affair is just the “tip of the iceberg” of intensive secret warfare the United States is waging in the region. “I think the aggressive nature of the way all that is covered is good because you are only seeing part of the activity, ” said Mr. Woodward, who also is associate editor of The Washington Post.
“But you just don’t want to get someone killed,” he added. “I learned a long time ago, humanitarian considerations first, journalism second.”
Three beat silence.
Cue: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Keyboard Kommandos style.
I am pretty sure that journalism doesn’t even crack the top 10 in terms of journalistic priorities these days. I believe it falls somewhere below “convincing the intern not to press charges” and “more mayonnaise.”
“But you just don’t want to get someone killed,” he added.
for very limited definitions of “someone”
I have a comment at Digby’s that applies:
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©
In spite of how far the NYT has fallen under Pinch Sulzberger, the WaPoop (aka the War Criminal Post) has sunk even further under Donald Graham.
Conscienceless plutocrats bought up most of our media, but they inherited the Times and the WaPoop.
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Today, 2:04:15 PM
Bob Woodward:
The dramatic drop in violence in Iraq is due in large part to a secret program the U.S. military has used to kill terrorists, according to a new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward.
The program — which Woodward compares to the World War II era Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb — must remain secret for now or it would “get people killed,” Woodward said Monday on CNN’s Larry King Live.
As opposed to if you do keep the program secret. Then it only results in other people being killed.
Reporting stuff is not the job of reporters.
The first rule of the Program is, you do not talk about the Program.
The first rule of Oprah’s Book Club is, you do not talk about Oprah’s Book Club.
The first rule of commenting is: you do not comment about the post.
The first rule of making sense of 3B: you do not make sense of 3B.
The first rule of posting at 3B is, you do not post at 3B.
I’ve been going to Mother Jones a lot lately. Today I thought, “I’ll click on Kevin Drum’s blog, I haven’t done that in years, since MJ is publishing him, maybe he’s not as bad as I remember.” The first post was a link to and quote of Megan McCardle. And not to mock her.
I don’t think I’ve ever read someone quoting MM not for mocking purposes.
KEVINNNNNNNNNN! WHYYYYYYYYY? *shakes fist at sky*
Maybe Kevin and Megan shared a tomato once.
Unlikely. The free market does not allow for sharing. It is a socialist habit.