It'll come to no surprise that this makes me very uneasy as well, so I've been following various discussions on the subject. I was comforted when McCain took a stand (see vid
here ).
Anyway, with regards to that, I found this exchange really interesting--
There's TNR (moderate left)'s
brief post arguing that it's no big deal.
Political reporter Ben Smith seems to take a similar line
here as well.
Both of those are short--then there's Glen Greenwald from Salon who takes issue with those arguments
here .
His column is in some respects challenging to me because I am one of these "balance" people and what Greenwald argues sounds to me as a slippery slope (it starts getting into the bias question again) especially in reporting, but at the same time, some of his points are pretty compelling.
alcyone
