Christopher Hitchens looks at the McCarthy leak case and suggest an appropriate response:
A special counsel must be appointed forthwith, to discover whether the CIA has been manipulating the media. All civil servants and all reporters with knowledge must be urged to comply, and to produce their notes or see the inside of a jail. No effort must be spared to discover the leaker. This is, after all, the line sternly proposed by the New York Times and many other media outlets in the matter of the blessed Joseph Wilson and his martyred CIA spouse, Valerie Plame.
However, he notes:
I have a sense that this is not the media line that will be taken in the case of McCarthy, any more than it was the line taken when James Risen and others disclosed the domestic wiretapping being conducted by the NSA.
Read it here.
Indeed, it all depends on whose ox is being gored. It is easy to point out the hypocrisy of the MSM -- it's blatant and unapologetic -- but Hitch's larger point is important. There is in the MSM a systematic institutional and ideological bias that gets in the way of full and accurate reporting.
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