Op-Ed Columnist - General McChrystal and the Culture of Exposure - NYTimes.com
Brooks cuts right to the heart of the McChrystal matter - inaccurate calibration of good will, and a culture that cares only about sensationalism and exposure, rather than competence, in public life. It's also not good to allow a gentleman's club sensibility to dominate journalism, but this is another extreme, with even mire disastrous consequences - jingoism and hypocrisy highest (read: lowest) among them...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/opinion/25brooks.html?src=me&ref=homepage