text: Please focus here; I'm not trying to defend bad hires by The NY Times (who also brought us Jayson Blair), or consistently bad actors at The WaPO, or anonymous sources (http://www.civilbeat.org/2016/05/reader-rep-we-need-to-know-where-information-is-coming-from/). Glenn Thrush, though, from what I read, did not allow the Clinton campaign to "edit" the story. He gave the campaign a section to view before publication (as a way to fact-check), which is ethically questionable but sometimes OK (when approved by an editor beforehand), especially when trying to capsulize a technical topic in a short space. In that respect, this incident seems to have been significantly misinterpreted by critics of the MSM. Read the part of the column above about doctors and serial killers, though, and I think that helps to clarify my stance: Judge journalists by the best of them, not the worst. ... Greenwald does good work, but so do many, many (thousands of) other journalists working in the MSM.