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Whither The Gatekeepers?

(AP)
"I very much agree that we need to have standards, but I think that in practical terms, we don't control what people find out anymore."

--Slate editor Jacob Weisberg, speaking at a Reuters panel on Thursday about the ability of media outlets to keep the personal lives of public figures private. The comment comes in the wake of the scandal involving Mark Foley, whose homosexuality went largely unreported even though it was an open secret on Capitol Hill.

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