I always feel a bit dorkish pointing out articles that are the lead articles on popular sites. I mean you are all smart enough to find and read them yourselves, right? So at the risk of being a dork... ok, at the risk of being more of a dork I will point out a Salon article.
Upon the build-up to the Iraq war I was reading voraciously. One person who caught my attention was Judith Miller in the New York Times. She really seemed to have the inside track on the WMD in Iraq. She was one of the main reasons I couldn't totally disagree with going in there - hell, she scared the shit out of me with those reports! So now that we all know the truth I find myself having trouble trusting anyone I read, including those whom I enjoy reading from reputible organizations. Today Andrew O'Hehir has a pretty good article in Salon about this and the Jayson Blair deal as portrayed in two new books. I'd like to agree with him about wondering why in the world Miller still has a job at the NYT - but I'd like to agree even more with this line from Seth Mnookin's new book "Hard News":
[The New York Times'] employees ... need to be willing to sublimate their own egos to serve a larger, quasi-public good.
Yep.
Posted by dmason at December 28, 2004 10:54 AM