Best of the Web Today - WSJ.com: "Flint, of course, would claim that she was standing up for a principle--for, in the AP's words, 'the privacy rights of library patrons.' Have you noticed, though, how the people who assert this principle are never patrons but always librarians? We'd say this is really a case of status envy. Librarians want their 'profession' to be treated with the same respect society affords the practice of medicine or law. (We should note that people in our own line of work are vulnerable to the same criticism, as evidenced by this item on proposed shield laws.)
Here is a case in which police searching for a missing girl were forced to waste precious time because a bureaucrat, acting on her own authority, said 'Show me the paper' instead of 'How can I help?' Judith Flint is no heroine."
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