Reporters and the Drug Issue: A "Rather Strange" Inquiry By Lowell Ponte FrontPageMagazine.com | October 12, 1999 THE PRESS LOVES to scrutinize everyone and everything—except itself. But what would we see if reporters had the honesty to confess their own sins or aim their investigative searchlights at each other? What if politicians became inquisitors, holding up a mirror to reveal the secret lives of reporters? If some of the hoariest pillars of journalism were thus turned over, what creepy, crawly bugs beneath the stone would be exposed? We caught a tiny flash of such clarifying light recently on ABC's This...