"There it was... gone!"

The (American) tradition of holding the authorities to account through the work of the press, has died.

This article by David Simon is worth reading, if you are not busy blogging about kittens. (Simon, creator of The Wire TV series, was a crime reporter for the Baltimore Sun).

Quote: "In an American city, a police officer with the authority to take human life can now do so in the shadows, while his higher-ups can claim that this is necessary not to avoid public accountability, but to mitigate against a nonexistent wave of threats."

Watch it, you'll end up dead.

Update: the New York Times announced May 4th that it will close the Boston Globe newspaper.