The post is fairly long; basically he's arguing that Bush is trying to destroy the "fourth estate" as a policy.
The quote that jumped out at me:
De-certifying the press is a means to a much larger and scarier end. Boehlert's formulation of it: "If the press loses its credibility, that eliminates agreed-upon facts -- the commonly accepted information that is central to public debate."
You know, those agreed-upon facts, like Bush didn't fulfill his military requirements.
Update: and The Daily Brief points to a true screed at Countercolumn about the LA Times' lovely story on North Korea [sexually explicit language used, if you care].
Posted by Owlish at March 4, 2005 07:16 PM | TrackBack