WHAT EASON JORDAN AND DAVOS TELL US ABOUT A FREE PRESS

Glenn linked to Jim Geraghty:

If the Davos organizers refuse to release it, and CNN refuses to call for its release, and the BBC refuses to call for its release, and every other news agency refuses to call for its release... ...then remember this, the next time the media gets up on a high horse about the public's right to know. Remember this the next time Dick Cheney has a meeting with energy executives. Remember this the next time reporters complain about Bush not holding enough press conferences, and not doing enough interviews. Remember this the next time they talk about the importance of a free press, and an informed citizenry. Because it's all conditional. None of this applies when the situation includes a media executive says something in a big forum that he later realizes he doesn't want the public to hear. Then all of a sudden, none of this matters, because it's bad form for other news agencies to look into the story if he wants it to go away. "Bad manners, old chap. We journalists have to stick together."

Then Glenn commented:

You don't need TV for those ideas to spread. And when they do -- and they are -- getting rid of Eason Jordan doesn't matter so much. Because neither does Eason Jordan. On the other hand, if the Eason Jordans of the world are all untrustworthy, self-interested boobs, and seen as such, it's going to be hard to sustain public support for press freedom. Unless, perhaps, enough people are blogging that the public sees its own face on "press freedom" and not the likes of Eason Jordan's.

I think that Glenn and Jim have this EXACTLY RIGHT.

The only thing I can add is that if hypocritical boobs like Jordan and his Left-wing cohorts continue to run the Old Media this way IT WILL (BECAUSE OF TALK-RADIO AND THE BLOGOSPHERE) CONTINUE TO DISCREDIT ITSELF AND LOSE MORE AND MORE OF ITS AUDIENCE AND MORE AND MORE OF ITS MARKET SHARE. Until they disappear. Good riddance.

At the core of the boobish hypocrisy of the Left (and the Old Media they dominate) is their unwillingness to admit that they've been wrong about most things since Vietnam, (which I posted on HERE and HERE).