Some journalists steadfastly maintain that there is no place in our business for our own agenda.
They are wrong. We look for our definitions of such legal issues, at the national level, to debates between the three branches of government or, at the local level, between school boards, prosecutors, and mayors and those whom they fight in court. We pay homage to the rules of law when we cover bar association honor ceremonies. We run the occasional editorial rejoicing in, or lamenting the decline of, freedom. We see and accept an executive branch that freely hides from public view whatever it wants and refuses with impunity to answer our questions.