Question of the Day

I didn't realize Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution was literally started by a noble lie.  A journalist and dissident leader who helped spread the lie calls it a "professional lapse" but says he's glad he did it. 

This is the sort of thing for which you are supposed to be drummed out of journalism, but Urban's still working.  Should he get a free pass just because he helped bring down an odious regime?

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/11/question-of-the-day/30358/