Why is the Russell Tice story not front page news?!!

[shoopnyc]

This is driving me crazy! I don't understand why it's getting no attention!

[Somawas]

1. Neither do I.

[rurallib]

2. Media still intimidated by and compliant to BUshco

You really don't expect much change in this area do you? They fucked Clinton and they will try to fuck Obama.

[zeemike]

7. Perhaps they fear that the spy will expose them. n/t

[spanone]

3. i really don't understand the media ignoring...they were wiretapping THE MEDIA

[nc4bo]

4. We know why

:tinfoilhat: territory until some official investigation gets underway or someone or some agency in the O admin brings it to light and not some radical left-wing tv shows and/or disgruntled former employees.

Grrrrrrrr.....

:nuke:

[stillcool]

5. because we have the media we have..

it's amazing.

[BrklynLiberal]

9. Amazing...and sad.

[Seeking Serenity]

6. I 'spect that it could be because

for a story so explosive, most media outlets would want some kind of confirmation and not rely on the word of one ex-employee.

Not saying it isn't true, mind you, but prudence would require more digging, more evidence before running willy-nilly with it.

Reporting organisations have gotten burned before going on the testimony of just one source.

[spanone]

8. investigative reporting possibly?

[Hotler]

10. Investigative reporting, I've heard of that..

What is it?

[Still Sensible]

18. Bingo

I think everyone is keeping their powder dry until they get enough corroboration to have a case. Maybe they'll get there, maybe they won't.

[FatDave]

22. Yup.

So far it's just one guy with a story. It's one guy who probably knows where the bodies are buried, but unless somebody goes looking for those bodies, what good is it?

And as far as investigative journalism goes...how does one investigate the NSA?

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. No matter what your #1 issue is,

media reform needs to be #2.

[Still Sensible]

19. Media reform, how?

The press is not in the purview of the government.

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. Well we can start by breaking up the monopolies

[Parker CA]

12. Because the majority of people don't want to believe that these sorts of things actually happen.

It almost seems too outlandish and fantastic to be true, which plays perfectly into the needs of those behind its execution to act as if it never really happened.

Until some other people step forward or bigger names begin to start moving their lips, this will unfortunately remain floating below the surface.

[NRaleighLiberal]

13. Many of the most awful crimes happened because people couldn't believe they could happen.

My friend call me an awful cynic because I bring up the stolen elections, and this situation is the same.

I think that those of us here at DU for whatever realize the damage that man is capable of. We've had 8 years of high crimes and misdemeanors, and the media has been either asleep at the wheel, in the pockets of the bad man, or too concerned with ratings/sniffing the populist air to give a shit and do their job.

Time (well over time) for them to wake up!

[nc4bo]

15. What happens even here at DU *sometimes*

:tinfoilhat:<---- will get you ----> :thumbsdown:

When things get to the point of being outlandish, improbable, impossible or mere coincidence and you start questioning why certain dots are so easily connected to miles and miles of other dots and the dots form a picture that bears an uncanny resemblance to the most powerful office in the land....you will be labeled a conspiracy theorist or :tinfoilhat:.

Once you bear the CT label, you basically loose all your credibility. For your troubles, you may even get called a lunatic paranoid nutcase and then everything you say will be ignored or laughed at :thumbsdown:.

[chill_wind]

16. K & R # 4.

[corpseratemedia]

14. it completely damns the *sh admin and the media were/are their patsies

It has been covered to some extent in print but I think the scope is so huge and had nothing to do with terrorism or even domestic "threats" that many
would find it unfathomable.

[RB TexLa]

17. Because everyone already assumed that had been going on?

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

21. Because the subheadline is how they all capitulated and were weenies

They SUCK! Is how any story they write would have to be interpreted.

The story has been out there for a while from multiple sources and they have CHOSEN not to cover it. They are part of the story, unfortunately.

[Kaleko]

26. Exactly.

[Gregorian]

23. They didn't change with the election.

The FCC may be our only hope to change the evil conservative mess our media is.

[OneBlueSky]

24. because a new president does not mean we have a new media . . .

same old same old. . . why were the Iraq war casualties, both American and Iraqi, not on the front page? . . . why were the innumeralbe verified incidents of election fraud not on the front page? . . . why were the contradictions in the "official" story of 9/11 not on the front page? . . . and on, and on, and on . . .

I still think Ted Turner should get a group of investors together, buy back CNN, and return it to the real news organization it was in its early years . . . then we will have a total of ONE major media outlet that tells the truth . . .

[struggle4progress]

25. Welcome to USA Incorporated.

[Stevepol]

27. I don't know about the newspapers where others live

but here the front page and the big headlines are reserved for issues like a crack in the sidewalk on the southeast part of town (because of the danger somebody, especially an older person, could trip and fall), a cave in the south of the state that is filled with bats and where experts go to study the creatures, the life cycle of geese and ducks.

These are the real issues of the day according to our newspaper, and I've been in other medium sized cities and the headlines are very similar these days. Issues like Iraq or Russell Tice or anything like that are consigned to page 6 or a small paragraph on the editorial page.

[mmonk]

28. Because we didn't impeach bush and force their hand to show the

American people what was going on. And if we still do nothing, then nothing will change.