Really - the transformation of the media over the last 20 years has been stunning. It is amazing to me to listen to talking heads (idiots every last one) on tv talking about what a travesty it is that Miller went to jail to conceal a source. Are they really so stupid that they don't understand the difference between a source who blows the whistle on wrong doing, and a "source" who pushed a political agenda by leaking information to a New York Times reporter - in retaliation to an actual whistle blower, and in so doing may have committed a high crime that is punishable by death?
The fact is, Bush says we are at war. Disclosing the identity of a covert CIA agent during a war is treason. Treason is punishable in this country by death. And Karl Rove may have, in fact, committed treason, and Judy Miller is supposed to keep that confidential?
And the talking heads are aghast that Miller was sent to jail for obstructing the grand jury investigation into a crime of that magnitude.
The United States does have a state controlled media - and it goes by the name Fox News.
And so some time in the near future, another American reporter will be threatened with jail -- this time because he won't reveal a source who exposed corruption, not a source who caused it.
And we will be fighting alongside that reporter every step of the way, right up to the jailhouse door.
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