We know, of course, that The Journal's opinion page is crackpot right-wing, but even crackpots (especially crackpots like Col. Robert McCormick, of The Chicago Tribune) were once known as defenders of the First Amendment and the public's right to know about government secrets.
In their June 30 editorial "Fit and Unfit to Print," the popinjays of Liberty Street ridiculed The Times for "wrapping itself in the First Amendment." Well what else are they supposed to wrap themselves in -- The Wall Street Journal?
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and about The Times:
What ingratitude on the part of Bush toward his former partners in propaganda! After all, the collaborative scare stories transmitted from Dick Cheney's office and Times headquarters on Saddam Hussein's atomic-bomb project have arguably made the Bush presidency what it is today.
Indeed, one could say that Bush owes his continued occupancy of the White House to the Gray Lady of American journalism. Above and beyond Judith Miller's and Howell Raines's front-page amplifications of administration lies about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, The Times's timely self-censorship proved essential to Bush's re-election campaign. Had the "paper of record" recorded the existence of the National Security Agency's warrantless (and unconstitutional) wiretapping program before the 2004 election -- instead of sitting on the story for more than a year -- we could very well be debating President John Kerry's equivocations on Iraq, rather than President Bush's incessant blather about staying the course.
But there are worse things than a pseudo-liberal newspaper's cooperating with malevolent power in Washington. For example, there is The Wall Street Journal's alarmingly mendacious suck-up response to the Bushwhacking of The Times.
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Read the whole thing, as printed in the Providence Journal!
http://www.projo.com/opinion/contributors/content/projo_20060710_ctricky.e86d86.html
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