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Finding disgusting contrasts between modern journalism and what Halberstam did is a fish-in-a-barrel exercise, of course, but this is the one that really gets to me: when Bob Woodward finally took some heat for his own shameful role in Plamegate, he actually said this:
I was trying to protect my sources. That's Job No. 1 in a case like this."
For Woodward, protecting sources outweighs the obligation to his reader. It outweighs his obligation to his employer. It even outweighs his obligation to tell the truth.
