[chiller]

more interesting unrelated items in the column

[chiller]

The money quote:

"Is it any wonder Americans don't trust the press? Here we have an editor of the New York Times insisting that reporters can keep a secret, then in the very next breath, a self-styled rabbi of reportorial "excellence" denounces them for doing just that.

Rosentiel's comments are especially idiotic. The reporters didn't lie; they just waited 2 1/2 hours until Bush had left Baghdad before reporting that he had been there. Journalists often get information that is "embargoed."

[elbucko]

Moreover, withholding facts "because it serves a larger truth" is precisely what reporters do when they use anonymous sources.

Exactly. "Bush" was an "anonymous source", until "the source" permitted release of the news regarding the trip. The rest of the "Press Corps" needs a nap.

[Zipporah]

I think it is commendable that Bush went to Iraq to visit the troops. The comments by Iraqis complaining that Bush didn't see more of Iraq makes me wonder if they didn't just want to make him a target.

[Klatuu]

"in this day and age, there should have been a way to take more reporters. People are perfectly capable of maintaining a confidence for security reasons. It's a bad precedent."

ROTFLMAO