Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

If you've been reading this blog for a while, you know Keith's Law by heart: Authoritativeness is inversely proportional to partisanship. We see the workings of this law in journalism, in science (think ClimateGate), in academia (where many professors seek to indoctrinate rather than to educate), and in law (where some judges are result-oriented). We now know why journalism is in such low repute. Many journalists have chosen to be partisan. They have decided that they'd rather be players than impartial reporters, either because they're oblivious to Keith's Law (which casts doubt on their intelligence) or because they think it doesn't apply to them (which shows how arrogant they are). Sarah Palin comments on what she calls the "darkness" and "sickness" of contemporary journalism. Unlike so many others, she gets it.