Romenesko

Slate
Jack Shafer says Ben Wallace-Wells' piece in Rolling Stone captures the complete costs of the drug war better than any journalist he's read in a long time. "There is no reason that this project couldn't have been conceived and executed by any newspaper in America. No reason except that too many editors, most of whom have indulged in illicit substances, fear the consequences of telling their readers the truth about drugs (canceled subscriptions, invective from Limbaugh and O'Reilly, loss of respect at the country club or university club)."