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Wiretap Balance: Fixing the Engine

Analogy; you can keep pushing the broken down tractor trailer with your hands, or you can try to fix the engine. We suggest focusing on fixing the engine. An example of the latter is this short letter to the Washington Post, by Joan Jacobs.

Jacobs writes:

 

Why did the two main stories on the resolution by Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) to censure the president focus exclusively on the politics and not the substance of the matter [”Feingold Pushes to Censure President; Some Democrats Wary of Resolution on Wiretapping,” news story, March 14; “A Senate Maverick Acts to Force an Issue; Democrat Feingold’s Motion to Censure the President Roils Both Parties,” front page, March 15]?

How can readers judge the merit of the resolution without the facts and reasoning presented therein? The Post has an obligation to provide its readers with the specifics offered by Mr. Feingold on how the president’s warrantless wiretaps are illegal.
 

 

 

 

 

 


We’ve made the larger point, about reporting the underlying facts, repeatedly. But it needs to be made by thousands of others, perhaps tens of thousands of times.  Some of those facts, including the applicable laws, are here, here, and here.  Media contact lists.   Washington Post.

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