Dana Priest Responds to Criticism of Secret Prisons Story

Editor and Publisher ^ | April 28,2006 | Ordi

[ClaireSolt]

I am supposed to believe that she can find out things the EU can't. NOT

[johnny7]

She's got the looks... and personality of a dry-drunk.

[Liberty Valance]

Nice try Dana. Without Mary McCarthy's input you wouldn't have a story much less a pulitzer. Putz.

[norwaypinesavage]

"She works for the Washington Post and she won a Pulitzer. I would think she feels invincible with that kind of protection."

Joe Pulitzer won his fortune selling his partisan news to a crowd of sycophants. He established his prize in an attempt to earn broader recognition. It has now come full circle: It is prized only among a crowd of sycophants. The Pulitzer Prise is now like the "Benevolent Protective Order of Dodo Birds" giving a prize to the BPODB member who can give the best dodo bird call. It means something to themselves, but no one else.

[sergeantdave]

The Pulitzer is the American version of the Order of Lenin.

[Barset]

Thanks, back.

[Chgogal]

Posts are good. Later read.

[thinkthenpost]

The earnings reports for the NY Times and USA Today, hell Gannet overall have been abysmal, yep folks are just lining up to read this tripe.



" Washington, D.C.: What do you think about the market value of publishing secrets. Both you and a New York Times reporter won Pulitzers and both you and the same New York Times reporter published secrets. Yours were about secret prisons. His were about secret wiretapping. Who wants to read about things that are not secret? Therefore, who will pay to buy a book or a newspaper that does not publish secrets? Secrets sell well and win prizes, don't they?

Dana Priest: I've not thought about it in those terms. I don't think that matters. "

[backhoe]

[kevkrom]

Anonymous: How does it feel to know YOU helped in putting our security at risk. Just another liberal who does not care about the U.S. Hope you paid McCarthy enough for her to buy a lawyer--but I am sure the Clinton dynasty will help all of you.

Dana Priest: Here's a pen pal for you. His name is Mike. One of several people who shares your distorted view of why the media (myself included, obviously) tries to write about national security issues that are at the heart of what we are doing as a country. Guess the Greek tradition of spirited debate is not your strong suit, or Mike's. He wrote: "Wow, the left wing drive by media has given you an award, when you should be hung from a rope for treason. Congratulations now go burn a U.S. flag."

Is it just me, or did Priest avoid answering the question, using an ad hominem attack as a "response"? Clearly the question was antagonistic (and ad hominem itself), but Priest at least should have defended how security supposedly wasn't put at risk by the story.

[TET1968]

Annapolis, Md.: I am a very right wing type. I salute you for improving the security of our great nation by not allowing stupidity to hide behind a classified label.

Dana Priest: From the great state of Maryland.
Correction:From the The Peoples Republic of Maryland.

[joylyn]

I think you're wrong about Pulitzer. He established his papers in a time much like today when journalism was becoming more competitive. In some ways, he was the equivalent of the bloggers -- a new voice who addressed an audience not served by the mainstream press. Was he partisan? Sure. But the World was a great paper in many respects.

I don't care for the Pulitzer Prizes as they are today. But why blame Joseph Pulitzer, a brilliant man and a patriot?

[onyx]

Thanks for the ping and woo-hoo, backhoe!

[norwaypinesavage]

"Why blame Joseph Pulitzer, a brilliant man and a patriot?"

My criticism was aimed at today's small enclave of self indulgent liberal journalists, not Joe Pulitzer. I'm sorry I offended his legacy.

[joylyn]

Thanks. Didn't mean to be oversensitive, but I spent years studying the guy.

I can hardly imagine what Pulitzer would have thought of the in-crowd journalism as practiced by the Washington Post.

[LtKerst]

He keeps saying that it is illegal to publish secrets. It is not."


Priest is full of Crap. if you print Govt. Secrets, in order to Damage the Govt, that is the description of "Treason"

And both McCarthy and Priest are Scumbag liberals.
so it was a deliberate work to damage our Govt.

Thats treason...and deserving of Jail time.

[Bret]

WHY HASN'T THIS WITCH BEEN INDICTED????

[Fedora]

Thanks! This part didn't say much for Priest's sense of touch with reality:

Well, first, Bennett either doesn't understand the law or is purposefully distorting it.

I'd be willing to bet a lot of money that if Bennett (Harvard Law School graduate) and Priest (UCSC Bachelor's in Politics) both took the same bar exam, only one of them is passing, and it ain't Priest. . .

[bdfaith]

Thanks for the link. I just did a separate blog post linking back to this thread. I'm all for giving McCarthy and Priest a fair trial then hanging them side by side.

[backhoe]

Thanks for the link. I just did a separate blog post linking back to this thread. I'm all for giving McCarthy and Priest a fair trial then hanging them side by side.

I think we ought to consider importing the guillotine for occasions like this. Dead serious, too.