Shelia M. Poole's courage should net HER a Pulitzer. Instead, this Atlanta scribe risks being blackballed because of her temerity. Kinda makes you wonder what stories we missed back before Algore invented the internet?

You said, "Call me a press-hating fascist wingnut, but I think that's a big story. That's a page one, lead for a week, cover-of-Time-and-Newsweek story. Why the hell are you whining yourselves hoarse about how long it took the White House press corps to learn about a minor hunting accident?"

Because the press hates Cheney more than they love their profession.

James — Or their country.

I agree

Steve, my take is this: The MSM is desperate for a diversion from their blatant cut-and-run cowardice in the Mohammed cartoon story. They have been taking a merciless pummeling for that, and know damned well that they can't respond.

So they urgently need to come up with some other target of public scorn to replace themselves as the focus of public mockery and disgust.

This conduct is not evidence of insanity. It's evidence of evasion.

That, and perhaps they have too much "humility".

When did you start thinking the press was interested in giving you a well rounded independent view of the world to help you make decisions?

The press is a political party, no more, no less. Worse, a political party out of power and out of step with the public. The press is where the birchers and bunchanaites were in 1968. Insane, alone and all the depth of their political thought can be expressed in bumper sticker haiku, but still not a party remotely capable of changing public opinion or policy.

Normally I wouldnt care but every round the press expends "fighting Bush" is a round not spent fighting terrorism, fascism and intolerance. If the press got its priorities straight, the war could be over in 6 months, but thanks to continually giving hope to the enemy that they might win, the war will go on. Not because bush is fighting it, but because the press wont.

frank martin wrote:
If the press got its priorities straight, the war could be over in 6 months

This I disagree with. I think the thought behind it goes something like: If the press wasn't sniping at the president's heels, he could do what he has to do in order to win this war. The problem is, the president doesn't disagree with the press on fundamentals. Both accept the premise that using the full force of American might in order to win the war would make us bullies. This is a viewpoint implicitly shared by the vast majority of the American people, though roughly half of them guiltily resent it. It is not the press's job to grant absololution to the president for the "sin" of forcing our will on the middle east. It is up to the president and the American people to reject the idea that it is a sin to defend our lives and freedom with all of our might. When we do that, the condemnations of the press will fall on deaf ears.

The press is simply depressing.

Stephen,

While I agree with you about this being I big story, I would add, "if it's true."

Don't forget the Egyptian Coptic Chrisitan family from a year or two ago that was brutally murdered in their house in New Jersey. This guy got on line and argued with muslims, he got death threats, yada yada. There was much speculation that it was muslim fanatics that did the killing. Turned out it was a couple of punks. One of whom lived upstairs.

In my town, right after 9/11, there was an Saudi businessman who's printing business was ransacked and anti-muslim epitaths were painted on walls etc. He claimed he was the vicitm of anti-Arab prejudice, the town paper rallied around him and he became a media darling. An organization called, 'Not In MY Town' was formed to combat prejudice, gin up donations to get him back on his feet and all that other good stuff. I could just hear the banjo riffs from 'Deliverence' accompanying every overheated editorial.

Turns out he was a two bit chisler with big debts and a small IQ and that he did it himself to collect insurance money and donations from sympathetic folks. Christian, muslim, jew, hindu or whatever, human nature is what it is.

So, while I sympathize, I'll keep my powder dry until we have more facts.

As for the MSM, let them go on and flog Cheyney until their arms fall off. The only ones looking like fools here are the MSM.

Other perhaps bigger stories might be the suppression of the Barrett Report. You know, the one that pretty thoroughly chronicles the Clinton administration use of the IRS to harass political opponents, among other things. To wit, "This careful and continuous monitoring of the report explains why Sens. Byron Dorgan, Dick Durbin and John Kerry took the highly unusual step earlier this year of trying to slip into an Iraq-war spending bill an amendment to suppress every word of the Barrett report. (Every other independent counsel finding has been printed in its entirety, with the exception of small sections containing classified material.)"

Or the release of some of the Saddam tapes that proved that they had, or thought they had WMD's. And whether or not they did, they were sure as hell lying to the UN and everybody else.

No, let's not speak of these things when we can crucify the vice president for an accident.

But hey, I'm not cynical. Not about the Washington Press corps!

One more thing, just for grins, go back and look at how they treated Teddy boy and his negligent homicide of Mary Jo Kopechne. Just for comparison, because you know the press is objective, they don't take sides, really, just ask them.
Why are you laughing so hard?

TO: Will Collier
RE: Can You Say....

"Why the hell are you [the so-called 'major media'] whining yourselves hoarse about how long it took the White House press corps to learn about a minor hunting accident?" -- Will Collier

...desparation measures?

I knew you could.

This is one of the reasons I don't pay any attention to what CNN, Time, Newsweek, NYT, LAT, WaPo and the rest of the so-calle 'main stream media' have to say. They are, for all intents and purposes, WORTHLESS. And that is a 'fact'.

Better attend to reliable blogs for what is going on around you, than to their ilk.

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[What they are telling could be true. But, what they are NOT telling you could be vital. -- cbpelto]

Bottom line here is, when they suppress a religious movement in their own country, its reprehensible. When they send secret agents to suppress peoples' relious freedom in our country, we're looking at an act of war. This may be bigger than the Iran situation...

Because the MSM's favorite candidates get large campaign contributions from the Chinese government, but not one red cent in campaign contributions from Dick Cheney. Follow the money!

Going after Cheney is like attending the mall before Christmas: the story is already there. Mall is crowded. Cheney's folks are unresponsive and evasive-seeming. The media isn't so much biased as it is lazy. They'll get the story they want, especially if it's easy. The hard stuff? That costs too much and might require hard work and making new connections that might not have the same lunch schedule as the old ones.

Ardsgaine-

I think you are missing the point. OBL and AQ gains strength and PR opportunities because the MSM refuses to believe any US positives coming out of Iraq and embellishes every possible point the looney left would hope to have brought forward. IN WWII that would have been considered treason. I hope no one takes issue with a critical press, they are going to be if they are doing their role. But when they willingly allow themselves to be the PR organ of the enemy, and prolong conflict which will result in more US deaths, what should the rest of us think? My only hope is to continue watching the MSM spiral downward and hope it will accelerate. And yes to another poster, the MSM is very, very lazy - and even when trying rarely get it right. So part of me wonders if they are just incompetent, or willingly aiding the enemy.

Yeah, no kidding, the press is missing a heck of a war. I'm pretty sure they missed covering the billions of dollars that are being poured down the drain in Iraq and the number of lives that are being tragically ended. If they could just get one thing right we'd be ok.

Almonte, heh.
Another stupid troll afraid to sign his real name.

IMO, Cheney is a man of deep moral cowardice. HE makes a mistake and shoots his friend; blames the friend.

Only Cheney doesn't do it directly. He gets underlings to do it for him.

Until Cheney et al. were forced to switch thier course, the party line was that Whittington screwed up by sneaking up behind Cheney.

mlhm5, I think the point here is: So what? You've said it. The story has been reported. Move on.

I wonder how many guns mlhm5 has in her house.

At the risk of injecting common sense into this thread, last time I checked, the AJC, the WaPo and Forbes were all card-carrying members of the mainstream media.
The Washington press corps will continue to beat the Cheney horse until the next time Bush goes mountain biking, but the metro reporters at the Post and the AJC will follow up on this story... if they can get more information.
Watergate started with a story inside the Post's metro section, you might remember.