American Entropy: Prof. calls out Rove on Plame

06 July 2005

Prof. calls out Rove on Plame

A Profesor of Journalism that taught with Karl Rove at the University of Texas has this to ~~say~~ write (via Hunter):

[T]he Valerie Plame-CIA case that threatens jail time for reporters from Time and The New York Times this week is the exception that shatters the rule. In this case, journalists as a community have been played for patsies by the president's chief strategist, Karl Rove, and are enabling him to abuse the First Amendment, by their invoking it.

That guys in trouble, better hope he doesn't have a family...

For in this case, Rove, improving on Macchiavelli, has bet that reporters won’t rat their relationship with the administration’s most important political source. How better for him to operate without constraint, or to camouflage breaking the law, than under the cover of journalists and journalism, protected by the First Amendment?

ead it all here at Editor and Publisher.

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