Journalism 101.
Bob Owens, the blogger who keeps acting like a reporter (ought to) has been chasing Beauchamp documents through FOIA. (Note: the TNR crew, with lawyers and editors and everything, apparently thought this would be … who knows).
He’ll be streaming the documents up all day. Go check them out and give him a big atta-boy.
Foer, not so much.
I don’t know if anyone has been watching the new (alas final) season of “the Wire†which deals with the role of the media and some of the ethical issues involved. One the characters is a young ambitious and unscrupulous newspaper reporter who keeps coming up with this juicy quotes that no one else seems to be able to verify and we’re lead to believe he’s making them up. I just noticed that his name was “Scott Templeton.â€
So Beauchamp went AWOL twice. Funny he didn’t write a diary about how he was kidnapped by terrorists disguised as whores.