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NPR’s Ombudsperson Alicia Shepard had this to say about the NPR’s inability to call torture "torture" when it happens in the front parlor instead of behind the wood shed:

there are two sides to the issue. And I’m not sure, why is it so important to call something torture?

Which caused Glenn Greenwald to say this when he learned that Ms. Shepard also teaches "media ethics" at the nation’s premier Jesuit university, Georgetown:

I was momentarily amazed to learn that she actually teaches "Media Ethics" to graduate students at Georgetown University (my amazement quickly dissipated once I recalled that this is the same institution that, until last year, paid Doug Feith — Doug Feith — to teach students "national security policy" and that Berkeley Law School has John Yoo "teaching law" to its students; next semester at Georgetown: Karl Rove teaches Civility in a Post-Partisan Age, Bill Kristol lectures on Accountability in Punditry, while David Gregory examines The Role of Intellect in Adversarial Questioning).

When interviewed by an NPR affiliate after having refused to be interviewed by Glenn for Salon, Ms. Shepard revealed the cringing Beltway attitude about the threat blogs pose for establishment journalism that forced Mr. Froomkin to spend more time with his family:

I think, um, we’re now at a stage where the debate is between dialogue and diatribe, and I wish there was more dialogue. I think there’s more diatribe.

It’s dialogue when the Post and NPR say it. It’s diatribe when someone disagrees with their spin or covers an issue they refuse to acknowledge. Read Glenn’s entire piece. Per Glenn, Ms. Shepard will be on Talk of the Nation today at 2.00 pm EDST, that’s fifteen minutes from now.