G. Pascal Zachary (former staff correspondent for the Wall Street Journal for 12 years and currently a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley School of Journalism):

The Lesson of Daniel Pearl’s Death: “Instead of asking journalists to toe the Pentagon’s line, our

government must allow reporters to keep their impartial

distance — or more men like Daniel Pearl may end up dead.” AlterNet

And, from Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of The New Republic, The Death of Daniel Pearl: “…(I)t was without rancor that I noted the platitudinous manner in which Daniel Pearl’s superiors at The Wall Street Journal, Peter Kann and Paul Steiger, responded to the shocking news of his murder. They reached for what the emotional folkways of America could give them. Their statement of February 22 strived for dignity. It surpassed its objective: what Kann and Steiger said was excessively dignified, in a way that might be harmful to a proper analysis of the outrage in Karachi.”