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BYRON YORK: What Does It Take To Be A ?Hero? Of JournoList? Related: Peter Wehner: JournoListe?

By Glenn Reynolds

BYRON YORK: What Does It Take To Be A “Hero” Of JournoList?

Related: Peter Wehner: JournoListers Risked Their Integrity. Risked? “What we have, in short, is intellectual corruption of a fairly high order. From what we have seen and from what those like Tucker Carlson and his colleagues (who have read the exchanges in detail) say, Journolist was ? at least in good measure ? a hotbed of hatred, political hackery, banality, and juvenile thuggery. . . . Journolist provides a window into the mindset of the journalistic and academic left in this country. It is not a pretty sight. The demonization and dehumanization of critics is arresting. Those who hold contrary views to the Journolist crowd aren?t individuals who have honest disagreements; they are evil, malignant, and their voices need to be eliminated from the public square. It is illiberal in the extreme. . . . Those who participated in Journolist undoubtedly hope this story will fade away and be forgotten. I rather doubt it will. It is another episode in the long, downward slide of modern journalism.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on July 27, 2010 (boomark / email).