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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
Or they're afraid of the slap-down they'll get for raising the issue.
Non-right wing news media are now so afraid of publicly discussing the issues that they let perfectly appropriate (and important) stories go by. They don't want to be another Dan Rather.
Fox News, and the right in general, have done such a good job in manipulating the social and media dynamic, that open discussion and "investigative journalism" has a bad name and is immediately attacked for being "anti-American" or Bush bashing.
Welcome to 1984... today. 
Mr Mephisto |
This simply illustrates that you aren't closely following the case, which is fine.
But 1984?? Right-Wing News World Domination? Sensitivity to criticism...from the Left??
Howard Dean, sensitive? Ted "
KARL ROVE IS WORSE THAN OSAMA BIN LADEN" Rall, intimidated by Fox News?
The following news agencies are all directly involved in this case, and countless others are reporting what they know so far:
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Newsweek
-MSNBC
There has been a torrent - a DELUGE - of reporting on this case going on. Nobody is intimidated, nobody is silent. No story is "going by". Nobody is afraid of being "slapped down". Quite the contrary. It seems to me that the prosecution is in the process of sorting out which direction it wants to go, so there's not much to report...yet. Most of it is just a re-hash of the established scenario, and commentary of aforementioned.
What I find compelling is the fact that 2 high-profile journalists are being threatened with jailtime for withholding their sources from the prosecution. This could mean one of 2 things: the prosecution has a strong case and is determined to go to lengths that would include jailing someone during its investigative process, or, they are bluffing, stalling for time to find some - any - legal angle with which to nail Rove. Obviously the first is the good scenario for Rove-bashers, and the second not so good. So, while the prosecution is keeping a tight lid on the investigation, let there be no mistake that there is a furious amount of activity going on behind the scenes that will be reported on in due time.