Tuesday, December 07, 2004
"Top secret" CIA leaks
Love the take on the New York Times' latest "top secret" CIA leak in Scrappleface, linked by James Taranto in WSJ.
One suspects that, regarding smug pretensions of credibility, the diminishing hourglass of time starts to beckon for its namesake New York newspaper, now that breathless front page pessimism is so easily made the butt of jokes.
This even while the laughed-at item finds syndication through the usual channels, themselves derisively identified (in fast-response new media land) as liberal axis "MSM".
Following the wheels of history back into the 19th century, the establishment media in New York was manifest in newspapers known as the (New York) "Herald" and "Tribune". The sparkling wheels of those publications have of course long since fallen off.
