Time to Change The 'Back Channel'

Media is a Plural by Rory O'Connor | Mar. 26, 2007 (Opinion)

Leave it to the New York Times to pronounce something "corrupt" and then wholeheartedly embrace it as "crucial."

This week's Sunday magazine piece by Max Frankel is the most recent and stunning example of the Times' weird worldview. In a cover story, the paper's former executive editor concludes that "the real lesson" of the recent Scooter Libby trial is that Washington's "black market in information" -- which the Times defines as "the messy and ... Full Story »

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by Chris Finnie - Oct. 1, 2008

Without having read the original article, it's hard to say how accurate this piece is. However, this story raises some interesting points. I just wish he'd follow them further. For example, exploring the "BigPolitics/Big Media equation" and how it serves "the reader, the citizen, and our democracy." Or whether the solution to the whole thing might not possibly be more transparency in our government.