Our Enlightened Masters—The Press

A great column from NRO's Jonah Goldberg on NYT/LAT intellgence leaks.

A tidbit:

"According to America’s leading journalists, the United States government cannot run clandestine operations. Indeed, it cannot keep secrets or do anything in secret — if the press thinks “the people” should know about it. I put “the people” in quotation marks because for the press, it seems, “the people” are an abstraction. It needn’t matter that the public understands some things should be kept secret; the press will tell them for their own good. And if the people complain, well, that means they’re a bunch of yahoos and yokels who don’t understand what a free press is for. Or, if the people are angry, it’s solely because cynical conservative partisans in Washington are pulling their strings in a ploy to change the subject from their own failures."