Elite Media's Respectful Obituaries of Ellsberg

Elite Media's respectful obituaries of Daniel Ellsberg have had something just a bit off, says Peter Bergen. The New York Times used its first establishing sentence to reference Ellsberg's quote: "The sobbing anti-war epiphany on a bathroom floor" And it ended that lead with the statement that, quote, the disclosure of the Pentagon Papers plunged a nation that was already wounded and divided by the war deeper into angry controversy,. Well, you don't have to be a linguist to sense the suggestion that the disclosure did the plunging and not the crimes themselves.