A journalist [well, a
CNN columnist, anyway] thinks there's an upper limit on the public's need to know. Troopship sailings through U-boat waters? McClellan's route up the Peninsula? Not exactly.
Don't be nosy about Fast and FuriousQuote:
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
June 26, 2012|By LZ Granderson, CNN Contributor
We are a nosy country.
Though to be fair, it's not entirely our fault. Between the 24/7 news cycle, social media and reality TV, we have been spoon fed other people's private business for so long we now assume it's a given to know everything. And if there are people who choose not to disclose, they must be hiding something. Being told that something's "none of your business" is slowly being characterized as rude, and if such a statement is coming from the government, it seems incriminating.
Times have changed. Yet, not everything is our business. And in the political arena, there are things that should be and need to be kept quiet.