Against The View From Nowhere

Jay Rosen encourages reporters to be more transparent, against "using opacity as a tool of power," for accountability in government, and against demagoguery. Ambinder asks how these guidelines are supposed to function in real life:

Tonight,I'm learning a lot about the back end of how the Rolling Stone articleabout Gen. McChrystal came to be written. I could share everything Iknow immediately, thus satisfying the transparency and anti-opacityprinciples, but in order to figure out who ought to...