Washington Post and New York Times Overturn Their Own "Pentagon Papers Principle"
Another “Conspiracy Theory” is revealed to be a true conspiracy.
By JOHN LEAKE
Since Julian Assange was arrested, I have suspected that the Washington Post and New York Times have abandoned the journalistic principles they applied when they published the Pentagon Papers. The same principles were also applied by Time and Life in their reporting of the My Lai Massacre.
To my astonishment, I was just informed of MATT TAIBBI’s report titled Who Helped Overturn the "Pentagon Papers Principle"? The Washington Post and New York Times.
The reality originally uncovered by Michael Shellenberger exceeds my worst suspicions. Abandoning the Pentagon Papers Principle wasn’t the result of a tacit or loose agreement, but of a formal tabletop exercise — literally a group of top guys from both newspapers sitting around a table at the Aspen Institute to conspire in the most active way AGAINST informing the electorate about a matter of vital public interest.
And so, yet another “Conspiracy Theory” is revealed to be a “True Conspiracy.”
Somehow, Michael's article just further confirmed what I suspected and what most of us have believed to be true literally since the JFK assassination. The shocking thing is that you were surprised. These are all bad people doing bad things. The various outcomes that we are discovering, usually only after ridiculous amounts of effort in our "transparent" administration is just what one would expect. The scary thing is the infinitely larger pool of things we are NOT discovering.
As the late Gore Vidal famously stated, "I am not a conspiracy theorist. I am a conspiracy analyst."