http://chattanoogapulse.com/pulsefeatures/letters-to-the-editor/letters-to-the-editor-7-30-09/ Chattanooga's Alternative Weekly Newspaper Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:26:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://chattanoogapulse.com/pulsefeatures/letters-to-the-editor/letters-to-the-editor-7-30-09/comment-page-1/#comment-368 David Durham Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:23:51 +0000 http://chattanoogapulse.com/?p=16613#comment-368 So Mark Sanford is in the news again after a letter he wrote to his 'Spiritual Advisor' surfaced this week. Big deal right? Well, the good folks in our news media felt that the leaking of this letter was a terrible thing. They said things like, "This was a sacred trust breached!" or "How could such a thing happen?" and you might agree with their sentiments. But hey, you want to take a peek at it? Of course you do and if so the good people in the news media wouldn't let you down. They showed it to us in all it's trust-breaching glory, terrilbe as it was. Now is there a disconnect here? Like maybe integrity and news gathering can no longer hang out together? Walter Cronkite come back, come back please! We need you! So Mark Sanford is in the news again after a letter he wrote to his ‘Spiritual Advisor’ surfaced this week. Big deal right? Well, the good folks in our news media felt that the leaking of this letter was a terrible thing. They said things like, “This was a sacred trust breached!” or “How could such a thing happen?” and you might agree with their sentiments. But hey, you want to take a peek at it? Of course you do and if so the good people in the news media wouldn’t let you down. They showed it to us in all it’s trust-breaching glory, terrilbe as it was. Now is there a disconnect here? Like maybe integrity and news gathering can no longer hang out together? Walter Cronkite come back, come back please! We need you!

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