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Some commentary.

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[dirtboy]

Do our media brethren really want to invite Congress and prosecutors to regulate how journalists gather the news?

Actually, I think many of them do, as long as Democrats are the investigators and conservatives are the investigatees.

[bert]

The black American pot is the same democrat party calling the kettle names.That specific kettle had a couple from Miami come to Washington and tap the cell phone conversations of US Congressmen, give them to Jim Moran and then to CBS

CBS is still plaguing America with the liberal crap even though Dan and Perky Katie are no more.

[ken5050]

It’s a MSM media feeding frenzy, and it’s goona get far worse..It’s their “in-house” version of the Casey Anthony trial..

[Berlin_Freeper]

Last week my wife sent her work resume to WSJ. I looked at it and saw she added as a qualification that she watches FOX News on the Internet.

I told her: Now we are going to be arrested!

[Lazlo in PA]

Fleet Street has long had a well-earned global reputation for the blind-quote, single-sourced story that may or may not be true.

So this is different than the US Lamestream? This is standard operating procedure at the NY Times. Who cares. As hard as the MSM try to push this story, no one cares. The Press is fully discredited all over. This just confirms what we already know.

[ForGod'sSake]

GREAT commentary! Some very sharp barbs finding their targets. All of which leads me to wonder just how widespread phone hacking is; outside of government sanctioned hacking of course. I'm sure they don't appreciate the competition, particularly from a media operation that is nominally conservative.

[Zakeet]

The Schadenfreude is so thick you can't cut it with a chainsaw. Especially redolent are lectures about journalistic standards from publications that give Julian Assange and WikiLeaks their moral imprimatur ...

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From invoking the "injuring the First Amendment" defense, to the old "the other guys did it too, only worse" defense, to the "it's the cops' fault for letting us get away with it for so long" defense, to the "we deserve a pass this time because of all the good things we've done in the past" defense, to the "our customers are the real judge - not you morons" defense ... these guys have fired a lot of weapons in their arsenal.

With this editorial, News Corp. has put the government and the competition that they are desperate and are not going down without a hell of a fight. Once they bring out the long knives, there is no telling where they will cut.

It's going to be interesting to watch things develop throughout the rest of this election cycle.