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“Why do things that only happen in banana-republics keep happening in ours?”
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“Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters’ Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.” CBS News said, let’s give Oscar the Grim Reaper Cat 349% more ink than FBI Director Mueller contradicting Attorney General Gonzales’s testimony. Media Matters asks, “There are very real and very serious questions about whether the United States is currently a fully functional republic…. Isn’t it time news organizations devote more resources to exploring these issues — even if it means fewer stories about cats and cleavage?” Has Stupor Killed the Fourth Estate? Was James Fallows that the Media Undermine[s] American Democracy?
A few days ago, Rupert Murdoch’s Times of London screamed “A catastrophe with mankind’s footprints stamped on it.” The Times’ more conservative rival, The Telegraph, was more dispassionate, with its headline reading “Man-made global warming increases rainfall.” Of course, the left-leaning Guardian also covered the story. Japan’s leading daily, Yomiuri Shimbun, had a similar headline. So did the Toronto Star, the Vancouver Sun and The Hindu.
What did The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today have to say about the story? Absolutely nothing. While news organizations around the world were reporting about the “first evidence that human activity has altered rainfall patterns,” the vast majority of US news outlets ignored the story.
This is what they should be learning from:
TPM Muckraker: Alleged Discriminator Nominated to Employee Discrimination Panel
NYT: nothing
Washington Post: nothing
AP has nothing either.
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