When word of Karl Rove's resignation reached the Seattle Times during a daily news meeting, cheers erupted.

When word of Karl Rove's resignation reached the Seattle Times during a daily news meeting, cheers erupted. Executive editor David Boardman sent a pair of memos to his staff: "That sort of expression is simply not appropriate for a newsroom. ... As we head into a major political year, now's a good time to remember: Please keep your personal politics to yourself.... If we allowed our news meetings to evolve into a liberal latte klatch, I have no doubt that a pathological case of group-think would soon set in." When these tut-tuts appeared online, some of us-folk said, Aren't MSM news meetings liberal latte klatches already? And others of us said, Good riddance to objectivity, let everyone fly his true colors. NR is an ideological enterprise: honest in its reporting, honest in its bias. But we, and the rest of the world, depend--and will, for the foreseeable future, depend--on honest brokers gathering the news. It needs more than two memos to make the lesson stick, but it's a good lesson. Bravo Boardman.