November 2, 2008
The silent treatment
Yup. The main stream media is pouting again. Someone snuck around the gate they used to keep so well, and dug up some pertinent news that ought to have been reported a long time ago, but wasn’t, and now they’re damn sure not going to report it ever.
You know what I mean: Obama getting jiggy with putting the screws to the coal powered energy sector.
And then, in a second untimely revelation: Obama gloating that "under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket."
And, although technically such announcements might not be considered terribly surprising coming from the most liberal Senator to flounce down the pike in the last few years, but it still seems they really ought to qualify as NEWS.
But, nope. Twenty fours after quotes started popping up on blogs, which is a fairly long time these days, there has been no evidence of the story in any of the main street media’s headlines. Nada. A blogger at the Washington Post gives the barest portion of the Obama lines amidst questioning whether McCain is himself two-faced about coal and global warming. Another blogger at the Wall Street Journal gets in a portion of the quotes in the context of Palin referring to them on the stump. And ABC News’s Jake Tapper barfs up a larger section from the interview (whence came the quotes) in a lame go at trying to show that Obama was taken out of context.
But other than those instances, Google News isn’t showing any old media names in its roster.
Everyone understands that dinosaurs go extinct at some point, but nobody ever supposed they committed suicide.
Update: Does the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review count? Hmm, it’s only a blogger. Maybe the Keystone intellectualoids are still pushing the notion that Capitalism is what sent the steel industry packing. (Hint: It wasn’t.) Further good luck to them in the future rounds of coming horrors.
