"So this isn't about carrying a grudge against the NYT, but about the fact that they're apparently so clueless that they don't even know they've made a mistake. And since the expertise required for them to make informed judgments about which disclosures are harmful has gone the way of the Monty Python Parrot, they ought to be enjoined from making such decisions until they wise up. Watching Keller take wild swings at soft underhand lobs by Charlie Rose the other night, nearly all of which he whiffed, I realized that the primary problem wasn't that this fellow was an idiot, but that he has no incentive to get wise. And until some are devised, we'd better just assume that Katy's knocked the doggone door off its hinges again."Sadly, the best case for the NYeT is quite analogous to the central dilemma of the "Tinfoil Apocalyse": Putting too much technology in the hands of the witless leads almost inevitably to disaster. Put a red button in front of your average primitive tribesman and you need to run away fast because there's about to be a very large explosion. The prime directive will have been violated quite spectacularly. We're just seeing the analogous phenomenon with printing presses.
But I'll still call them the EneMedia until I have absolute proof that they aren't really Joseph Goebbels types disguising themselves as the village idiot. Even though they may be nothing more than useful idiots, it's never a good idea to underestimate your enemy. And this kind of outcome is quite a stupendous confirmation of Antonio Gramsci's legacy if true...
And ultimately, this all revolves around the central dilemma of the war on
If they're not on the other side, the NYeT clearly believes this.
But lots of thoughtful citizens who pretty much get it have trouble clearing this hurdle.
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