Newscoma

And Digby, who can write rings around just about anyone, schools us on many things.

Here is a snippet:

This isn’t brain surgery. A reporter’s priviledge should not be used to help powerful people in government lie to the public about what it’s doing or punish its enemies for speaking out against it. It exists to protect people who are risking their livlihoods by speaking out against those same powerful people. This is not hard for rational people to understand and yet in Washington they are so confused by their relationships with the powerful that they seem to be speaking in tongues on this issue.

Read the whole thing. It’s quite good.