Blinders

They’re good for helping a mule keep his eyes on the ground immediately in front of him, but they’re a terrible disadvantage to a newsman, as Jeffrey Lord makes abundantly clear in a fascinating article in the online edition of The American Spectator. Lord provides much important historical context surrounding the sinking credibility of the mainstream media, and offers up one particularly intriguing example of a media cover-up involving the murder of a CIA official’s wife that I had somehow managed to overlook (which is not surprising, since the news people who could have broken the story refused to do so at the time).