Jacob Weisberg tells us in the latest Newsweek:
What’s most distinctive about the American press is not its freedom but its century-old tradition of independence?that it serves the public interest rather than those of parties, persuasions, or pressure groups. Media independence is a 20th-century innovation that has never fully taken root in many other countries that do have a free press. The Australian-British-continental model of politicized media that Murdoch has applied at Fox is un-American. ?
As un-American as Thomas Jefferson? Alexander Hamilton? Any of the other ?infamous scribblers? who helped found our constitutional republic?
