The Partisan Sickness of the US Media
Posted in General on January 28th, 2008 by evan – Be the first to commentIt seems like a story about corruption won’t fly in the States if it indicts both parties. Consider the remarkable case of Sibel Edmonds, who exposed a network trading in nuclear secrets INSIDE THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.
Another reason is the partisanship. With the foreign press, there is no partisanship, and that’s one reason why they have been more effective at covering this case, and I’m not just talking about the recent Times articles here. With the US media, it appears as though if there is no clear partisan angle, then there’s no story. As you know, this case is spread over two administrations, and that appears to make it difficult for the reporters to cover the story. Even within one news organization you might have one journalist who wants to use the story to indict Clinton, and another who wants to use the story to bash Bush, and in the end neither of them write about the story because it doesn’t fit their partisanship, their ‘narrative’, so they just drop it altogether.
