MICHAEL KINSLEY: Who Owns The First Amendment? Journalists Think They Do — And They’re Wrong. “An interview is a commercial transaction in which the reporter and the source each hope to gain something. Such exchanges rarely amount to anything illicit, but most FOIA requests, on all subjects, are dry holes. And many FOIA requests offend people’s sense of privacy or give succor to their enemies, rivals, or competitors. . . . For people whose job it is to describe the world, journalists often seem to have remarkable difficulty imagining life in other people’s shoes.”