Recently, conservative writer and former National Review Online contributor W. Thomas Smith, Jr., was attacked in the blogosphere and media for his NRO blogging while he was in Lebanon. The attacks against him were not only baseless, but because the reaction to them was so appalling and shameful to our business, almost in too many ways to elaborate fully here, I’m moved to comment on the whole grisly affair. At the extreme, Smith was accused of lying about stories that no one else uncovered or reported in Lebanon. He is said to have lied, yet the evidence given to that...