Murdoch’s Pride Is America’s Poison

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/opinion/sunday/keller-murdochs-pride-is-americas-poison.html

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, May 6, 2012 at 9:12 AM
Subject: re: Murdoch’s Pride Is America’s Poison
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

     Bill Keller continues to posture as the Voice of Responsible Journalism and offers the willingness to acknowledge getting a story wrong as the test of that creed. The test case is still on the table. When he acknowledges that he was wrong to quash the warrantless wiretaps story, he will have credibility on this issue. That decision cost the New York Times one of the best investigative reporters of our generation. More important, it cost the American electorate the chance to know that one of the candidates was engaged in a pattern of criminal activity as we went to the polls in 2004 to elect a president.  We don't know exactly how Dick Cheney threatened Bill Keller. But we do know that a press that comes to heel when the  White House tugs its leash is a press that's not serving the Public.

Barry Haskell Levine