Why we don't hear more about the Dowing Street Memo

[the old gringo]

Why don't we hear more about the DSM in the mainstream media? According to Ann McFeatters, Washington bureau chief for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Toledo Blade, there will only be more coverage on the issue if there is "some real news attached to it."

Translated, that means no coverage until someone in the administration broaches the subject first, which of course they never will. By remaining silent about certain issues, the White House effectively controls the media. So despite a public outcry for coverage (by the first week of June, McFeatters had received more than 2,000 e-mails urging her to write about the memo... "the response has never been this intense before..."), it's unlikely that the story will get any more traction until someone in the press actually asks the administration a question, and actually gets an answer. But they won't ask the question until someone in the administration brings it up first. Around and around we go. The circular logic is evident, and it is working the same way with the Karl Rove/Valerie Plame story; no one in the press corps has asked about Turd Blossom's involvement yet, despite daily opportunities to do so. Both the press and the White House are dancing around the elephant in the room. Remember, it takes two to tango.

Newspapers have always been in the business of selling ads, but how I long for the days when the press was also obligated to uncover the truth, rather than just licking the boots of their corporate overlords.

[UCSBLiberalCat53]

1. I wish

I was a member of the crack WH press corps.

[Triana]

2. perhaps it's time to bombard them with letters again..

...INSISTING THAT THEY ASK. Why won't they? If the 'news' media won't ask useful questions to get the news then what good are they? Robotic megaphones...puh.

[chelsea0011]

3. Well, first the media had to deal with the MJ acquittal, then

the Holloway Aruba mystery, then those pesky sharks, and then there was the London bombings followed by Dennis. You can see where there was no time from May to now to fit in any more news.

[jojo54]

4. Something is working, at least

See this thread from last night.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1617315

We have to keep the emails going. Maybe someday these aholes will say, "Gee there's really something to this situation - we'd better look into it".

Or am I just dreaming?

[Bassic]

5. Because it has been effectively played dow by the WH.

Hey look this is me looking surprised!

:yoiks:

[Matilda]

6. When the Democrats win the White House again

one of the first priorities should be an investigation into the role
of the corporate media since Bush took office, followed by
legislation to break up the biggest conglomerates.

Yes, I know, in my dreams.