Jay Gray, the NBC News reporter covering the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal in State College, Pennsylvania, was arrested on drunk driving charges after he attended a drunken football-watching party at Sandusky's lawyer's house, reports say.
Once upon a time, there was an independent press who took pride in being impartial and no one's bitch. It was called the "Fourth Estate" because while the three estates referred to Parliament in England 00's, Thomas Carlyle, the Victorian writer, said "Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all." The press were akin to the slave who would stand behind a Roman conqueror and whisper in his ear during his triumphal parade, "Remember that one day you will die." The press worked to expose the Truth.
And now . . . hell, he was pouring the good stuff.
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