Duck of Minerva:

But in this case, what difference is there between a CIA officer and Dana Priest? (she’s a Post Reporter who covers national security). Once, in a chat she was doing, someone asked her the question– who has better info, you or a spy–and she said her.

Whenever I turn on the TV and see yet another story about Lindsay Lohan’s alcoholism or the “tragic saga” of Anna Nicole Smith, I find myself growing nostalgic for an era of journalism I never experienced. Perhaps I’m dreaming of a golden age that never was. But the sad truth remains that we traded men and women like David Halberstam for the likes of Katie Couric and Geraldo Rivera.