Only a very great fool thinks that, if he exposes what a person or group of people is actively trying to hide, that he won’t be seen and treated as an adversary. We’ve seen a lot of that already as the Snowden revelations have continued.
“Adversarial” is like very nearly any other word: the connotations are only negative depending on the context. Ecclesiastes, eh? “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven…” Some things should be opposed, and one hopes that our journalists have the moral fibre to oppose them.
