Jason Whitlock: "Keep Salaries of Public Officials Locked Away'!"

Kansas City Star columnist Jason Whitlock did what every good 'sports journalist' ought to be doing: defending KU Athletic Director Lou Perkins in his fight to keep his salary information out of the hands of the Lawrence press.

On his daily, sports talk radio show, Whitlock described the efforts of the Lawrence Journal World newspaper to make Perkins disclose his salary information as "dangerous."

The real danger is when media practitioners such as Whitlock fail to recognize that the press must always be willing and able to press governments suits for information, even when it means burning a bridge or two.

Thankfully, Whitlock took the cowardly route which keeps him in good graces with Perkins and the Athletics Department at KU.