JAY ROSEN IS SAD THAT WE’RE STILL TALKING ABOUT VIETNAM — and he’s also sad that Douglas Brinkley isn’t talking:

This is sad because Brinkley (who is said to be writing an account for the New Yorker) should be in the business of giving out knowledge, and that doesn’t include eluding the press when you so often use the press to broadcast your work.

I agree, on both counts. Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: Several readers email that Brinkley — who was, as Rosen notes, dodging the press — appeared on Hardball tonight, where he did yeoman duty as a rather vigorous defender of Kerry. Maybe Mark Steyn flushed him out by remarking that “hagiographer Douglas Brinkley, after an intriguing interview with the Telegraph’s David Rennie, seems to have entered the witness protection programme.”