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July 03, 2005

And she claims to be a journalist

On why Matthew Cooper and Judith Miller should enjoy absolute privilege on shielding Karl Rove or whoever their secret source (no lettuce or pickles) was, Time’s Margaret Carlson has once again proved herself clueless about real journalism.
“Journalists must honor their promises which protect the bad along with the good,” said Margaret Carlson, a Time columnist and colleague of Cooper. “We can’t separate them like the darks and the whites in the laundry.”
No wonder people in the establishmentarian media like her got taken to the cleaners on Iraq, and many other issues, by Rove et al. Evaluating a source’s quality is a basic principle of good journalism.

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