See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Report No Evil (Al Gore)

See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Report No Evil

by Deck Deckert

(Swans - January 30, 2006) If anyone has any doubts about the mainstream corporate media's subservience to power, they only need to look at the virtual media blackout of Al Gore's recent speech warning of the threat posed by the Bush regime to our Constitution and our liberties.

Gore said that President Bush "repeatedly and persistently" broke the law by eavesdropping on Americans without court approval, and he called for an independent investigation.

Big news, right?

After all, Gore isn't a nobody, not even a routine politician. He is the man who was denied the presidency by one Supreme Court vote. Any newspaper with a shred of news sense, and honor, should have led the front page with it.

You would think.

But it didn't happen. No paper that I'm aware of carried it as the lead story. Few, if any, carried it on the front page. Many, perhaps most, didn't carry it at all. The New York Times, the nation's paper of "record," was one of them.


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