There were many important news stories this week. The Justice Department subpoenaed phone records of AP journalists who reported on a thwarted plane bombing CIA operation in Yemen. I feel this is the most important, because of it’s implications on a journalists constitutional right to gather news, and government interference with that right.
An article I read recently does not hold much news weight in the traditional sense, but I found it very interesting, and well written. It was about endangered Monk Seals being killed in Hawaii, presumably by angry locals who feel the endangered animals get more rights than the local fisherman whose families have lived in Hawaii for generations. It proposes an interesting dilemma. We have protected many endangered animals which are now making a comeback, but as population numbers return, humans don’t know how to live with the animals, and one realizes why they may have been killed off in the first place. Here is a link if anyone is interested in reading it.
