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I have neither the time nor legal background to figure out who's right.
An extraordinary admission, when you think about it, because of what it says about how the Serious Mainstream Media has come to view policy issues in recent years.
It says intellectual laziness.
It says a fundamental indifference to the possible consequences of a given policy--after all, nothing particularly bad is going to happen to them.
It says It All Pays The Same.
It says Who Really Gives A Fuck.
It means that the Serious Mainstream Media is in the hands of overaged sophomores who really should give some serious thought to early retirement.