I’m a great believer in the need for a strong independent press, and I worry about what we’re going to do for solid investigative journalism once all of the newspapers have gone the way of the telegraph, but the journalists aren’t doing themselves or us any favors by publishing ill-researched ignorant scare pieces that can be authoritatively and conclusively debunked by in two days by some part-time blogger.

The Los Angeles Times Gets It Badly Wrong On A PATRIOT Act Story.

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