Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.

There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.

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