I’m entering lazyblog mode to affirm this journalist’s position on a breaking-news matter while adding no insight of my own. But I will pick up today’s Washington Post at the newsstand.

Neal Ungerleider wrote:

This is why enterprise journalism needs to exist

The link above goes to a massive Washington Post story about government waste in top-secret intelligence projects that has been in the works for two years. It details how the US government farmed out endless amounts of intelligence work to private contractors… and received A TON of false information, redundant information and likely corruption on the part of both contractors and government agencies in return.

I’m not going to provide commentary on the story. Too many pressing deadlines for that. However, I will say that someone will need to keep sponsoring this kind of quality journalism. Even if noone ends up reading dead-tree newspapers anymore, institutions such as the NYT, WaPo and their ilk will have to keep on fighting the good fight. Please buy a dead-tree paper and help them do that.