This is one of those stories that those of us not in the news business point to when trying to explain why the press is held in such low regard.Bobbie Calvan, a reporter for McClatchy News Service stationed in Baghdad, decided to blog about the trouble he had at a checkpoint in the Green Zone when returning from an assignment:He asked if I had a driver’s license on me. I told him I didn’t have one. He looked incredulous. Why would I need a driver’s license in Baghdad; I wouldn’t be driving, I told him. He took offense at my response. Then he looked at the second ID of my companion. It was a badge issued by our newspaper. He said it wouldn’t do. Besides, he asked, what is Knight Ridder? “I never heard of it,” he said. He probably would have never heard of McClatchy, either. (We use Knight Ridder because it already had a bureau in Baghdad before the chain was bought by the McClatchy Co.)Knight-Ridder is the name of a defunct news company and...(Read Full Post)