(np) big O, say it isn't so...

[Michael Bailey]

>
> The mainstream American press isn't exactly uncritical of Obama and the
> wars.  What is the current explanation (that does not hammer Occam's Razor
> into paranoid oblivion) for why they don't have this story?
>

these guys are really cool:
http://www.projectcensored.org/

they put out a book every year full of stories overlooked by the media
-- really juicy stuff, well-documented, good reportage...

as to why, well, c'mon Henry --
I'd be the last to hate on the mainstream press, I love my papers

but a) they can't cover everything
b) they can't alienate their advertisers
c) their ownership tends to be conservative and hooked in to a certain
worldview which informs their editorial policy
d) malefactors increasingly have legal departments, and courts judge
in their favor all too often
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/11-the-media-can-legally-lie/)


they didn't cover the 2000 election theft, Greg Palast had to go to
England to report the systematic fraud in fake "felons", which would
have been plenty to save the day

they banded up against Mark Webb to gainsay his CIA-cocaine connection
story which CIA FOIA gleanings tend to bear out

they lined up behind Bush's Iraq lies

and so forth