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Article: Watchdog is barking.(Editorials)(News media must educate public about its role)(Editorial)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- July 3, 2006
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Byline: The Register-Guard
Let's assume the overheated rhetoric accusing the news media of treason and calling for prosecution of publishers is mostly bluster. Underneath the political posturing lies a very legitimate point: Why would journalists disclose a classified program that is designed to help the government track down terrorists?
It's a fair question, and if journalists are honest with themselves, they know it's being asked by Democrats as well as Republicans and by liberals as well as conservatives.
When The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal reported on a secret government program that tracks financial ...