What's next? No Justice, No Peace?

McClatchy has debuted their new website along with a new motto: "Truth to Power", as in speaking truth to power.

That's a fairly bold claim for an establishment news organization to make. But I will be the first to say that they're the only ones in the business who can make such a claim without garnering endless well-deserved snickers.

McClatchy, after all, has led all the big news organizations on the US Attorney story. And in as much as its the inheritor and successor of Knight-Ridder (which they recently bought and merged with) they were simply without peer as a news organization in covering the build up to the Iraq War and War on Terror and not getting taken in by the conventional wisdom and the prestige leaksters.

So all things considered, more power to them. I can't think of a news organization that, story for story, has a prouder record over the last six years.