Go to the comments section of Wretchard's article and scroll down to Kent's comment that he posted around 3:07 PM. The whole comment is very interesting but here's the bit that grabbed my attention:

>M.Simon is right that there was no Golden Age of press
>responsibility. I would add that the paper that nearly blew the
>cover on Allied codebreaking, the Chicago Tribune, was virulently
>anti-Roosevelt

This actually brings to mind journalistic standards during the 19th century. Back then, slander and libel were more the rule than the exception. The evil nonsense they often wrote about President Lincoln was absolutely scandalous. However that was the standard back then and people didn't take newspapers all that seriously. The problem we now face is a few random lies published in an American grocery store magazine (Newsweek) can cause people to die on the other side of the planet. It's a smaller world and the media has more impact than it deserves.

Gary