WTF Is It Now?!?

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Over at First Draft, athenae takes a look at an op-ed by journalism professor Michael Socolow, who argues that there's too much friction between the press and the government and it needs to end. Yeah, I couldn't believe it either. The whole response is spot on, but here's a taste:

We need a cease-fire, this guy says. Seriously? What exactly have journalists been using as weapons in this terrible and destructive war, pray tell? Marshmallows? Candy-coated fairy food of mass destruction? What towering victories have journalists achieved in exposing the corruption and lies of this administration, and what are the incidences in which they've exceeded their brief, that would merit lumping them in with people who want them garrotted and shot? A cease-fire. You've got to be kidding me.

I hate to tell our esteemed professor of journalism this, but we don't need a cease fire. We need a war. We need the kind of war we should have been getting from 9/12/2001 onward up until this afterfuckingnoon. We need answers, goddammit, about what's happened to our country. A cease fire is pointless if journalism has already surrendered.

Game, set and match.

- Blah3 (emphasis mine).