The Endangered Scoop

(and what other stories that affect all our
lives are major newspapers sitting on because one
of their reporters has a book coming out at a
later date?)

January 9, 2006

The Endangered Scoop
Stephen Pizzo

Let's play the blame game. Whose fault is it, anyway. Seriously. Whose fault is that:

We still don't know who met with VP Dick Cheney five years ago to formulate the national energy policies that have now brought us record high energy prices.
We didn't know in time that the Iraq/Niger/Yellow cake business was a scam – and three years later we still don't know who cooked it up,
We didn't know in time that there were no WMD in Iraq, and there hadn't been for years,
We didn't know soon enough that US troops were “mistreating” Iraq prisoners, even though reporters were "embedded" with those troops,

We didn't learn for almost four years that the NSA was breaking the law listening in on Americans and reading our email.
Why did it take so long to find out what Jack Abramoff and Tom DeLay were up to when the evidence has been laying around since at least 2002 just waiting for someone it all together.

Who's to blame for that dismal list of disgrace?

Simple. My former profession, journalism, is to blame – hands down. Journalists are supposed to be in the show and tell” business. But over the past five years they have done neither very well -- if at all.

Let's look at it another way. If the police failed to prevent by catching those who commit crimes, who do you blame – the crooks or the cops? I blame the cops. Crooks are just doing what crooks do – being crooks. They are those proverbial bears in the woods doing what's expected of them. It's the cops' job to make me safe as possible from them. If crime is running rampant in my town, it's the cops' fault.

continued

when the media blamed Carter for Iran and never looked at Reagans arms for hostages deal.

over the past few years the media and the cops have been too frightened to speak up. Still it looks like some of those worms are sneaking out of that can!

I agree, the press could do a better job, but I don't pay much attention to MSM these days. I think the blame goes to the congress, for not checking this administration. All the things you mentioned could have been exposed, if congress had been doing their job for the past five years.

of actions in our government, not our public
officials. They can't referee what goes on
front pages...

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Kicked and nominated.

:kick:

Edit: P.S. Oh well, too late to nominate.