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03/30/2008: "Press complicit in helping gov't propaganda"

At the same time, in the first few years after 9/11, stories that have now become frequent front-page fodder.about water-boarding of terrorism detainees and other aggressive interrogations tactics, about CIA "blacksite" prisons overseas, or about covert eavesdropping or other surveillance programs that stretched the limits of the law -- simply didn't get written by most of the mainstream media. If we had known about them, which in most cases we didn't, there would have been a reluctance to publicize them in those early days of the war on terror.

[ It's the behind-the-scenes stuff -- attitudes, nepotism, lobbying and public taboos -- that govern, not some abstract mandate for an audacity of hope for change or whatever the buzzword is this week. ]

http://www.slate.com/id/2187498/