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GG has written a pair of superb articles. Please also remember it took the NYT and David Barstow, even as GG acknowledges to have all the spadework done to get this story out.
As a subscriber to the NYT print edition since 1998, I have a love-hate relationship with the newspaper, and several times have suspended my subscription for weeks at a time because I get annoyed with them. But I don't yet see a replacement for what they can do; and therefore continue to support them because of stories such as this one.
In this internet age, when I can get government press releases and video without the intermediary of the media, the real value-add by a newspaper or TV channel is this kind of investigation. I don't know how to encourage it except by writing to them, continuing to subscribe and expressing appreciation in forums wherever I write.
I also think we should try, to the extent possible, to make our best journalists have as much name-recognition as the Russerts, O'Reillys, Limbaughs, Williams etc. If for nothing more tangible than a psychic reward for them to know that people appreciate their work and discuss it.
