http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/opinion/28kristof.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=kristof%20balancing&st=cse&oref=slogin
- Hide quoted text ----------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:43 AMSubject: Media's Balancing ActTo: letters@nytimes.com
- Hide quoted text -To the Editor: Mr. Kristof leads us through three hypothetical quandaries for the press, but stops short of the big one. The American people went to the polls in November 2004 unaware that our government was spying on us. Although this newspaper knew of president Bush's illegal domestic wiretaps, that story was withheld from the public for another year yet. Would we have voted the scoundrel out? Would we have voted in a congress with the mandate and the will to restore the rule of law? We can't know. The election was decided by an electorate who didn't have the facts. Call that "democracy" if you want.Barry Levine
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