![]() In this election campaign shadowed by two grinding wars and a floundering economy, nothing should be exempt from public scrutiny. ![]() It must raise the curtain on itself as well, which it is now being compelled to do limitedly, in the crossfire over former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's kiss-and-tell book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception." For some this rationale double dips into the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press. The nation’s press long has been reluctant to apply to itself the transparency and accountability that it prods others to produce. One thing he and his reporters did, Murrey Marder points out, was find mid-level, knowledgeable sources - and not fall for the deceit pushed by those high in the Bush administration.īy Murrey press and the next president share an exceptional challenge: to revive-and fulfill-the touchstone of democracy, true transparency and accountability in government, which has been trashed by the Bush administration in the name of wartime secrecy. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence. John Walcott is the winner of the first I.F. How Walcott and the Knight Ridder reporters went about their work COMMENTARY | July 24, 2008
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