Historically it has been the press that has created the most important part of the public record. But I believe in a new balancing estate, a new age of journalistic integrity, and a new form of civic courage — based, like our best science, not on backroom whispers and selective quotations, but on documented evidence, from Tehran to Washington, about how powerful organizations actually behave. Only then can we chart a course to reform.
When journalists deny their readers the primary source material on which their most important stories are based, they not only deny our children an important part of their rightful political heritage, they deny themselves integrity, and the long-term good will of a public which cannot hold them to account. The media must once again become the champion of the public record, and through it the champion of all.
AMEN!!!
It's sad - there was a time when a journalist was taken at face value - and didn't have to "prove" his work. Different times. Broken trust.