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[Previous entry: "Tim Burton Interview."] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Small gallery of bad toys."] 07/08/2005 Entry: "A rare, sane, commentary on Plume by a journalist." A rare, sane, commentary on Plume by a journalist. Its amazing to see the corporate media and the left and right join together to protect vindictive punishment through the media under the guise of "confidentiality" or mindboggingly "whistleblowing." I guess you can't expect the media to be impartial about their own industry, although they should be able to, but the last batch of op-ed pieces and even straight out news pieces about Judith Miller make her sound like the white MLK. Here's an op-ed by a journalist who has actually dealt with confidentiality issues for reasons other than political backstabing. Reporters acting in the public’s interest and protecting the public’s right to know? Hardly. To the contrary, the Miller-Cooper-Novak affair is a classic misuse of anonymous sources. Here, administration insiders first used reporters to inflict punishment on their political enemies and then to hide behind, all in the name of freedom of the press. In granting anonymity to these “confidential sources,” Miller, Cooper and Novak weren’t protecting a whistle-blower with information valuable to the public. Far from it. The real whistle-blower—Wilson—was the target of the damaging leak.