Failure to push back

Pushback. It is so contrary to our Southern sensibilities. So rude. And so necessary.

Lex has a post about the after-the-fact legal justifications for US torture. What caught my eye was this from the New York Times Public Editor (Ombudsman), Clark Hoyt, commenting on the pitfalls of reporters getting all warm and fuzzy with (read "manipulated by") inside sources:

"It demonstrated again the dangers when editors run with exclusive leaked material in politically charged circumstances and fail to push back skeptically."(emphasis added)

Locally? True dat.

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