Pollywogs!

For a while, I had a hard time understanding what the big deal was
concerning Judith Miller, Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson.
Recently, I found out that Judith Miller was an embedded reporter in the
White House, acting as a mouthpiece to funnel pro-WMD stories into the
New York Times, selling the case for the war on Iraq. Her reporting was
so biased and un-critical that the Times apologized for publishing four
of her ’stories’.
It now makes much more sense why some people are so worked up about
Judith Miller ’spilling the beans’ about Valerie Plame: she was acting
on behalf of the Bush Administration, acting as a hitman instead of her
usual role of spreading ’spin’ cloaked in the guise of journalistic
reporting, of being the ‘go-to’ reporter. Worse yet, she was acting as
a go-between because she knew “Mr. Libby did not want the White House to
be seen as attacking Mr. Wilson”, as she so succinctly put it.
Terrible, terrible, terrible that ‘journalists’ are acting in this
fashion, becoming so involved in politics that they spread lies instead
of exposing them…I guess this is becoming so common that most people
aren’t even offended any more.
Should these people be thrown in jail?