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RUSH: Wall Street Journal today has an editorial about Judith Miller and Matt Cooper, and the prospect that they might be going to jail. Looks like Matt Cooper won\u2019t be because TIME is going to turn over the relevant documents that the court wants revealing their sources, and the rest of the media is just in a shambles over this; the rest of the media just doesn\u2019t get it. They\u2019re upset about it. The Wall Street Journal actually has a pretty good take on this. The subhead is: “The press corps unleashed a prosecutor on itself.” You know, this really is true. The press really has only itself to blame for this when you stop and think about it. After all, what happened? Robert Novak has a confidential source. The confidential source, somewhere high ranking, told him the name of a CIA agent, and he published it. All hell broke loose. “You can\u2019t do that! Why, that\u2019s a crime! Why, you can\u2019t protect. You can\u2019t reveal!” The media normally would circle the wagons around Novak, except Novak is a conservative. So rather than circle the wagons around Novak the media circled the wagons around Dan Rather and Newsweek. The media demanded a special prosecutor. The media demanded an investigation. Why? Because Novak\u2019s a conservative commentator. His source is likely an administration official, and the media wanted to know. The hell with confidentiality when a conservative is involved. So the same media that had an orgy of defense for Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and Deep Throat and all the other confidential hours there have been in lib media history.<\/line> The same media that showed their willingness to go to the mat to protect Woodward and Bernstein and Newsweek and so forth, showing a double standard and agitating for disclosure. Oh, yes, the media, yes, they had to know who was talking about to Novak. Why aren\u2019t those people talking to us? Novak is conservative. We want to find out who\u2019s talking to him. Have you not been sort of humored by the number of press people demanding that Novak reveal his source? “Why, Novak could stop this tomorrow, if he would just reveal his source.” Nobody would ever say that about Matt Cooper or Judith Miller or any other liberal media person. So what we have here is a prosecutor who is taking steps far out of proportion to what\u2019s required here, given that it\u2019s doubtful a crime was committed. Ahem! I\u2019ll say this again. We have a prosecutor taking steps far out of proportion to what\u2019s required, given that it\u2019s doubtful a crime was committed, when information was provided to Novak in the first place. And these two have come to a head now and it makes both of them look pretty pathetic to me. I don\u2019t think the prosecutor looks particularly good here. I think the media, the Wall Street Journal, brought this on themselves by demanding to know who Novak\u2019s source was and demanding that Novak be forced to release it, and so the administration heard those calls, and this administration is responsive to the media, folks, oh, you want to know who Novak\u2019s source was? Well, it wasn\u2019t us, but we\u2019ll gladly appoint a special prosecutor, we\u2019ll have an investigation, and look who it ended up snaring, two lib reporters and not Novak. So in a way, in a purely human sense, you sit back and laugh at it. But when you get through with that, it\u2019s just pathetic. <\/line>The Los Angeles Times today: “Many in media criticize TIME\u2019s move. Some say the decision of TIME to reveal sources confirms fears that corporate ownership is a threat to press freedom. Others contend the magazine had no choice. Journalists and media observers voiced anger and dismay Thursday over the decision by the publisher of TIME Magazine to give information about one of its reporters\u2019 confidential sources to a grand jury. Some said the announcement by Norman Pearlstine, TIME Inc.\u2019s editor in chief confirm their fears that increasing corporate ownership of media organizations had become a threat to press freedom. But others said that TIME had no choice but to comply with a lower court ruling and turn over the information after the US Supreme Court declined to review the case. ‘For 30 years,\u2019 said David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and author, ‘we\u2019ve assumed that strong journalistic institutions would stick together and protect their employees. Now a new wind is blowing and that united front is gone.'” Oh, isn\u2019t that rich. You\u2019re still circling the wagons, Mr. Halberstam, it just depends. It\u2019s got to be Dan Rather and Newsweek. You won\u2019t circle the wagons around Novak as we\u2019ve just illustrated. Yeah, I think the media is in its last throes. I think all of this indicates that some of these critics may have a point about this corporate ownership, but they\u2019re missing what the real point is. See, journalists traditionally don\u2019t have to face any bottom line pressure, meaning financial bottom line. Most elite journalists think that they should be paid whether the company they work for makes money or not. They think they should get health benefits, time to walk the dog, dental benefits, and a pension, whether their company makes money or not because their mission is important. Why, they are the defenders of the very country in which we live and breathe! Why, journalists are the defenders of the very Constitution — even though none of them seem to understand it anymore. I\u2019ll never forget Lawrence Tish, a businessman from top to bottom, took over CBS. He looked at the news division saw all the red ink and said, “Okay we got to get rid of 200 people.” <\/line><\/p>\n

Dan Rather said, “You can\u2019t do that!” <\/line>All the other CBS people said, “You can\u2019t do that!” <\/line>Tish said, “Why not?” <\/line>“Well, Paley never did it. That\u2019s why you can\u2019t do it.”<\/line>“Well, I\u2019m not Paley, and I\u2019m not going to sit here having bought this company and sit here and leak and sieve money.”<\/line>“Well, you do it somewhere else. You can\u2019t do that. We\u2019re the news division of the Tiffany network. You can\u2019t do this to us.”<\/line>“Well, it\u2019s been done. Two hundred of you out the door. See you later.” <\/line> No, they don\u2019t want to have any responsibility for the bottom line, profit, loss. It doesn\u2019t make any difference to them whatsoever. So here comes Norman Pearlstine, “Well, the law is the law. The Supreme Court says we gotta do this, and, you know, whether we like it or not, we enjoy our freedoms because of that very Constitution. We\u2019ve got to obey it.” What he didn\u2019t say was that if they didn\u2019t obey it in addition to jail time there would be huge fines, and the fines could have negative impact on TIME Inc., shareholders, on TIME\u2019s bottom line, and so from that standpoint is may well be the corporate ownership, but there\u2019s always somebody of a corporate nature that has always owned the media. So this is a straw dog. I think what this illustrates is that most journalists couldn\u2019t care less whether the people they work for make any money or not. They don\u2019t think it matters, certainly not to whether they get paid or not. You know, and the shareholders and board of directors may be a threat to journalism is what the claim here, “Oh, yeah, this is a threat to doing real journalism.” Sometimes the public is a threat to doing real journalism, too, when they refuse to believe some of the garbage that is printed or broadcast. So you could say the public is a threat to journalism. If you\u2019re a journalist today and you work at one of the big three broadcast networks or one of the two or four big newspapers — well, any newspaper now — if you\u2019re a big-time journalist that works in a couple of the cable networks and you are losing readers and circulation and viewers in record numbers, wouldn\u2019t you have to conclude that the public is a threat to journalism, too? <\/line>“Well, those damned upstarts, they\u2019re not watching us! Who do the American people think they are? They\u2019re not reading us!” So it\u2019s easy to pick holes with every argument that they would make. Here is Orville Shell. Orville Schell is the dean of the UC Berkeley graduate school of journalism. He said, “I can\u2019t believe there will be too many anonymous whistle-blowers who will want to communicate with Matt Cooper knowing that he can be burned and turned in by Norman Pearlstine. What happened at TIME Inc. is clearly troubling for anybody who values the watchdog function of the media.” We had a caller yesterday who made a great point. Why do these people protect sources that end up screwing them? The one case we could think of is because maybe the source is a woman that the reporter is chasing, has got the hots for. You never know. I mean, these kinds of things happen. Let\u2019s see, who else do I have a quote here from. Ba-da ba-da ba-da ba-da. Well, that\u2019s pretty much it, and then the LA Times has one more story. We\u2019ll have to do that in just a second. So What\u2019s the Story on Novak? It\u2019s actually a column by Jonathan Turley, a pretty lib legal analyst who gets passed off as a moderate conservative sometimes but he\u2019s a professor at George Washington University Law School, and he\u2019s all upset that Novak seems to be unscathed here.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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