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Monday, October 17, 2005

"I don't think he'd have a problem with it."

". . . . The press is apparently free to work in cahoots with government officials to take the country to war on false premises; and the sources a journalist is willing to go to jail to protect include government officials apparently engaged in disinformation campaigns.

"If these are the principles that The Times stood behind, it is a sad day for the newspaper . . . ." - New York Times letter to the editor, October 17, 2005
I've seen a number of comments along these lines. Apparently it's now bad to make a principled stand if the immediate beneficiaries have impure motives or the wrong political views.

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"I mean, I-- I-I'm just trying to imagine what, uh, Kant would make of this." - Ralph Fiennes, "Quiz Show"


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