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Originally Posted by willravel
You really think this is a game? How many people died on 9/11? How many people in Afghanistan and Iraq have died? How many soldiers have died? What's happened to the Constitution and BOR? Self importance obviously has little to do with this, since the press has put itself in a very difficult spot publishing their findings. Why would they do that? Well, it's something called journalistic integrity. If I was a journalist, and I saw the government doing something I thought was illegal, guess what I'd do? What would you do? Would you support a fruitless wire tapping program that OBVIOUSLY effects the privacyt of every American?
I don't understand how it's petty to bravely do one's job. Would you call a firefighter petty just because they put out a fire in a place that you didn't care about?
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If it isn't a game, then why did the NYTimes expose a clandestine government program aimed at those responsible for 9/11 (rhetorical question).
What *possible* good could come of it.
There was no rational justification that I can see for them to expose this program. I think you are giving the NYT more credit here than they deserve. This should be a case-study to everyone that the Media, who are also human beings with opinions, is not necessarily completely impartial, unbiased or non-partisan. A case-study they don't teach in journalism school.