emptywheel actively participated in a law enforcement investigation that she was actively covering, and then hid this fact from readers for many months. Media then took her claimed rationale at face value (as though collaborating with the FBI is normal journalistic activity)
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I am not defending her actions, just clarifying what she wrote. BTW, CounterPunch is doing fantastic, thanks for your concern though.
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Right, so you were just making an innocent "clarification" -- and decided to throw in a Dick Tracy joke (something I've definitely not heard ten million times in my life) -- not because you were defending her actions, because you just wanted to be helpful. Plausible story.
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