MSM: FIGHTING for YOU!

The MSM gives itself awards for revealing information which may put American citizens at risk, and alienate our allies overseas. Via RCP, Stuart Taylor has some pros and cons of national security leaks, but ends with this:

The award-winning November 2 revelation, also over Bush's objection, by The Post's Dana Priest that the CIA had been holding and interrogating high-level Qaeda detainees in secret prisons in Eastern Europe seems a closer call....

I do suggest that the media may fare better in the subpoena wars if they have reasons for publishing government secrets more compelling than "because they are interesting."

Very comforting to know that the MSM power of the pen is employed in a dilettante's exercise.