Update to "Indefinite Detention for Terrorists"

Here I posted on an article on the White House considering an Executive Order on detention of people being held in the Global War on Terrorism or "The Long War."

What I missed was that one of the authors of the linked article, Dafna Linzer, is no longer a reporter for The Washington Post.  Rather, she stopped working for The WashPost in 2008 and now works for a blog, Pro Publica, which can be found here.

To anonymously quote a perceptive observer:

Is that the way of investigative journalism now? Wow.

Maybe it is.  How we get our news has been in flux since soon after I hit this planet.  The big format weekly news magazines of my youth (Life, Look, Colliers, Saturday Evening Post) are gone.  Walter Cronkite still sails off the coast, but his mastery of the evening news format is gone.  We used to get our video news when we went to the movies on the weekend.  CNN arrived and then found itself being challenged by FOX.  Matt Drudge, looking like a young Walter Winchell, showed up.  Papers have Web Editions.  On the other hand, the telegram is gone and no longer is the long distance phone call an indication of serious illness or death in the family.  AM Radio thrived, died and then came back, partly thanks to Rush Limbaugh.  We now have not only blogs, but twitter.

And, only a hundred years ago, there was little of this, except for Pathé News.  People would throng into the streets to read what the newspapers had posted on their windows or there would be "Extra" editions.

Regards  —  Cliff