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 Rebecca Hale - Oct. 1, 2008

Well this is a commentary on a commentary - Rory's thoughts about Max Frankel's thoughts, a former Editor of the NY Times, regarding ummm.... democracy is necessarily founded on evil? I have a hard time understanding the fake logic. So I think this is a good blog by Rory, to bring to the forefront the point that if the framework for journalism is gossip (the unsubtantiated innuendo coined as a fact), then the fruit, a democracy founded on freedom of the press with these values, will be toxic and rotten.