When a blogger named Michael Rogers reported on his site that Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig is a closeted gay, Spokane Spokesman-Review editor Steve Smith had to decide how his paper would handle the story. The result speaks volumes about how the digital age has changed the calculus on questions of privacy, discretion and journalistic transparency. Smith talks with Bob about the story he couldn’t ignore.
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