Double Standard
April 28th, 2006 by Wyatt
I am continually annoyed (but not surprised) at how duplicitous the national press can be. When the Valerie Plame case started to come to light, they bellowed about how awful it was for anyone to leak sensitive information. They demanded an investigation. They wanted blood. Of course, nobody wanted to talk about how Plame wasn’t really an undercover agent or how she misused her post to send her husband on a research trip or how he flat out lied about his findings in the New York Times.
Then, when the press starts getting leaked information about the NSA monitoring program and the foreign prisons, they are happy to share classified information with the public. As a matter of fact, those writers were given Pulitzer prizes to reward them for leaking operational secrets that have surely compromised our intelligence gathering.
This Wall Street Journal editorial does a great job of laying out the embarrassing case of double standards. The writer nails it in the final paragraph:
As for some of our media colleagues, when they stop being honest chroniclers of events and start getting into bed with bureaucrats looking to take down elected political leaders, they shouldn’t be surprised if those leaders treat them like the partisans they have become.
The truth hurts.
May 5th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
You are such a God-send. I am raising my 2 grandchildren while teaching in a public school enduring the daily onslaughts of mob mentality. Even the so-called advanced placement students are in the throes of peer pressure/mob mentality. In our school students are disrespectful without consequences, administration is afraid for their jobs so they cater to the parents and we are in the trenches dealing with a collective lack of character. When I read your article I wanted to shout “YES!” Well written and thought out and what a relief to know that someone recognizes the horrible aspects of public schools.
Thank you and keep writing,
DJL