A Statement Regarding this Blog's Journalistic Standards

Like the overwhelming majority of political bloggers, I'm not a journalist. I only like to play as one.

Therefore, my journalistic standards or lack of them must be made clear.

So here:

They're higher than Judy Miller's which makes them higher than those of Pinch Schulzberger, Howell Raines, Steve Keller and company.

Question now: Is that high enough?

And here's some belated wisdom from Judy:

Miller said many Americans don't understand how their access to information and the freedom of the press have been affected in the past few years.

"We are less free and less safe," she said, explaining that there is a "growing secrecy in the name of national security."

Always nice to have the obvious criticized by an enabler of the obvious.