Look for the Union Label (Over Their Mouths)
As blog readers are probably aware (and non blog readers probably are not), Linda Foley, the president of the Newspaper Guild, has been making claims about the US military intentionally targeting and murdering journalists. Yes, the Newspaper Guild, the journalists' professional union, and their leader is making the same incendiary charges that got Eason Jordan torched at CNN.
Thomas Lipscomb of the Chicago Sun-Times has been diligently calling for a truth reconciliation in the matter. And he's been equally dismayed by his colleagues' silence in questioning Foley as by her specious claims in the first place. His latest plea to break the relative media blackout on this story was published in Editor and Publisher. It included the lonely roll call of those overcoming their conflict of interest to speak truth to power:
To date, not a single pundit, editorial writer, or newspaper ran anything, with the exception of the Chicago Sun-Times story I wrote, a St. Paul Pioneer Press column by Mark Yost, and a Washington Times column item.
Congratulations to our man Yost and the Pioneer Press for once again providing a perspective on the news which would have been happily buried by the rest of the MSM in this town.
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