someone should introduce Bill Keller to Martin Niemöller

Brian Zick

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it's already been a couple days, and before any more time passed I just wanted to note… Bill Keller was quoted in the Page 1 story in last Sunday’s (March 5) WaPo http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/04/AR2006030400867.html White House Trains Efforts on Media Leaks Sources, Reporters Could Be Prosecuted By Dan Eggen "There's a tone of gleeful relish in the way they talk about dragging reporters before grand juries, their appetite for withholding information, and the hints that reporters who look too hard into the public's business risk being branded traitors," said New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller, in a statement responding to questions from The Washington Post. "I don't know how far action will follow rhetoric, but some days it sounds like the administration is declaring war at home on the values it professes to be promoting abroad." -- Bill Keller is executive editor of The New York Times! And JUST NOW he comes to this conclusion? I mean, one need not be a history scholar, nor really even know Niemöller’s name, to have been aware of - and INFORMED BY - his rather famous and instructive regret: http://en.thinkexist.com/quotation/in-germany-they-first-came-for-the-communists-and/763399.html

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