"Speaking Truth to Power" Crapola

Time Magazine has one of the dumbest paragraphs ever written by a major media source in an editorial in which they try to defend the idea of the press giving out our national secrets (h/t Little Green Footballs):

The line between dissent and disloyalty, between harmful revelations and vital ones, is murky. Often we never really know. But I would argue that the judicious questioning of the conduct and morality of war is the furthest thing from disloyalty: it is an expression of deep patriotism and the essence of responsible citizenship.

Very often in our history, that task has fallen to the press. From the publication of the Pentagon papers and the Watergate probe to TIME’s recent revelations about the tragedy at Haditha, our job is to speak truth to power.

"Speaking truth to power" has become one of the dumbest slogans of the left in recent years, and is used now anytime somebody wants to challenge authority. In fact, it is not the media's job to "speak truth to power". It's their job to report the news, all sides, without bias or political motivation. If they want to "speak truth to power", they can do that in the form of a commentary that no one will read.

The media has become so pompous and self-serving that most people have little use for them anymore. There are far too many good news sources out there to waste your life reading Time or other publications that spend more time preening in the mirror and telling themselves how important they are than researching stories.