Government 1, Media 0

Newsday Columnist James Pinkerton (anybody remember him from "New Paradigm" fame before reinventing government became all the rage?) opined yesterday that conservatives who are cheering the further decline of the "liberal media establishment" occasioned by the jailing of NY Times reporter Judith Miller ought to think twice. They may soon learn, he wrote, that "the ultimate enemy of freedom is the unchecked power of the state."