ABSTRACT
I write to thank my friend Benj DeMott not only for calling my book, A Matter of Opinion, an “affable account” and me personally “not a prick” (memo to Tina, my book publicist: Do we have a blurb here?); but more significantly, for his instruction in the higher media ethics. However, although I have read his good piece (“With Friends Like These” July, 2005) three times I am so morally obtuse that I still can’t quite figure out exactly what my sins are.
