Talk to Me: To Wikileaks or Not to Wikileaks  Thursday, January
6, 2011 @ 08:01 AM gHale  There was a time almost 40 years ago
when the ideal of journalism was to hold fast to a standard that
said nobody was above the laws of the land. An honorable and
noble goal. The profession looked at wrong, pointed it out, and
then sought avenues to fix the injustice.  The profession helped
bring down a President who felt he was above the law. During the
entire Watergate investigation, it became clear the President
broke laws and the country had a right to know about the ensuing
cover up.  Journalists found details, researched and confirmed
those details and then wrote stories reporting those details.
They didn’t just jump at the first detail and write a story
about it; they had to truly research every aspect of the story.
Their editors insisted all facts get confirmation by more than
one source.  They had a responsibility to their readers and to
the person they were writing about to get the story right. They
kept advanc