Academic takes 'singing journalists' to task

Edward Wasserman, a professor of journalism ethics, refers to reporters who have testified at the trial of Lewis "Scooter" Libby (including the Washington Post's Bob Woodward) as "the grandest choir of singing journalists in the history of the late, great first amendment." He writes: "What happened is that these journalistic heavyweights - and their employers - just didn't have the stomach for a fight." And he contrasts them with the "bantam-weight blogger Josh Wolf " who is in jail because of his refusal to testify. (Via Miami Herald)