For those of you who may have missed (or do not regularly listen to) NPR's "On the Media," you should listen to this week's edition, which contains two excellent segments on journalism and war.
The first details lemmings-to-flame problem inherent in journalism; something the commenters hope is replaced with careful inquiry the next time war appears imminent.
The second is an interview with The Man himself, Daniel Ellsberg, whom I have long admired when I started reporting in undergrad and as I moved on to law school to study the First Amendment in greater depth.
Check it out.
Meanwhile, here's Daniel Schoor in the CSM, commenting on Ellsberg and the First Amendment -- something all of us hold dear, but which is not as protected as some of us believe: [More]
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