"... the defense of reporters' work (and sometimes life)!"
I completely agree with this writer.
After all, just look at the life's work of Eason Jorden. What's a lie comparatively.
Just remember the life's work of Senator Ted Kennedy, (C-MA). Even drowning a girl couldn't damage his reputation.
And Ward Churchill....fraud though he be, just look at HIS life's contributions. I mean claiming paratrooper status in Vietnam while really just trained to drive a jeep deserves being overlooked.
It's all relative to the unabashed left. Then again, they never met a lie they couldn't defend.
Well, they had so much practice defending the Great Lie that was the USSR that it became a habit.