Speaking of hard journalism

This is the type of article that I think, if newspaper organizations die, we will be losing. And as a society (and as consumers) we ought to consider that very carefully before we decide to throw news companies to the dogs.

Behind Analysts, the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand

This, in particular, is the phrase that says to me “no blogger could write this.”

But The Times successfully sued the Defense Department to gain access to 8,000 pages of e-mail messages, transcripts and records describing years of private briefings, trips to Iraq and Guantánamo and an extensive Pentagon talking points operation.

There will be more on this at Eat Sleep Publish when the blog launches, probably later this week.