Not a whole hell of a lot to say today. The war is going excellently despite all efforts of the press, the politicians, the entire rest of the world, etc to disabuse us of that notion. I’m very tired – due, no doubt, to staying up until 4 AM on Sunday morning and getting far drunker than I ought to have – and so don’t give much of a damn about anything.
But, check out these searching questions and see if you know the answers:
. . . while it is censorious of politicians and soldiers, the media is completely uninterested in monitoring its own behavior. Would Mr. Rather have gone to Berlin amid the SS to interview Hitler in his bunker as the fires of Auschwitz raged? Would NPR reporters have visited Hitler’s Germany, paid bribes to Mr. Goebbels, and then broadcasted allied shortcomings at the Bulge, oblivious to the Nazi machinery of death and their own complicity in it?
I know! I know! Teacher! Call on me!