For the MSM, after all the media revelations.

Just a quick note to the "celebrity reporters" Woodward, Viveca Novak, Robert Novak, Judy Miller and the like. While you are selling out your ethics to go to the right parties and hang with the cool kids, afraid of even slightly offending your "sources," these guys are risking everything fighting for their ethics and their readers.

BEIJING - Reporters at a Beijing newspaper known for covering sensitive topics walked off the job after an editor was removed this week amid efforts to tighten press controls, employees said Friday.....

In June, it broke the story of an attack by armed men that killed six villagers who were protesting the seizure of land for a power plant near the northern city of Dingzhou. The government arrested more than 100 people and investigated two local Communist Party officials after the report was picked up by other Chinese outlets and foreign media.

And yes, despite some really good, honest work by some of the smaller outlets Knight Ridder, Christian Science Monitor, New Yorker, and I gotta mention Jason at Rawstory, it has come to this: the Chinese media are fighting for their freedoms while the NYTimes are holding stories at the request of the president.

I have to say it again: This is not the America I was brought up to believe in.