Never Forget

Long before enemy combatants, there have been all kinds of legally suspect ways to ruin innocent lives. I remember the morning Carl Kasell announced to the world that Richard Jewell had been named a "person of interest." I went to the office that day (I was working at NPR at the time) and asked the managing editor if it we, as a news organization, were really willing to go down that road. His answer was that since the FBI had released the name, it was our job to report it.

I've often wondered what it would have taken to get all news organizations in America to say no, sorry, we're not going to do your dirty work for you.

Listen.