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Where's the postbox? maxarouse The reactions by Sorkin, Gregory, Todd, Pincus, Farhi, andothers betray (dare I say it? ) a sad devotion to thecorporatist ideal of what journalism can be and, (I don't haveany problem saying it) a painful lack of historicalunderstanding of American journalism. You don't have to be ascholar or a historian to appreciate the hundreds of flavors ourjournalism has come in over the centuries. Just fan the pages ofChristopher B. Daly's book "Covering America: A NarrativeHistory of a Nation's Journalism" for yourself. Americanjournalism began in earnest as a rebellion against the state,and just about the only people asking if its practitionersbelonged in jail were those beholden to the British overlords.Or consider the pamphleteers, most notably Tom Paine, whoseunsigned screed "Common Sense" 'shook the world', as Daly putit.