Why no peep from the MSM on the new Tillman allegations?

[TeddyKGB]

Bury the conspiratorial tone for a second -- it's a juicy story; no programmer in his right mind would just ignore it.

Are there legal ramifications to the networks reporting this right now? Lawsuits from the families involved, the military, etc.?


EDIT: Sorry, I thought this story just broke; I looked on CNN & MSNBC online and saw no Tillman headlines...

[MonkeyFunk]

1. no peep?

I've seen it on MSNBC, CNN and NBC.

It seems to be getting more than a peep.

[question everything]

4. Right. This morning on the Today Show

(I think) and Olbermann covered this yesterday and today.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

10. It was reported in the first news read on The Today Show and of course Keith.

[Faygo Kid]

5. Here's the NY Times site, supposedly sympathetic to us. Where is it?

Pat Tillman with three bullets in the forehead at close range. OK, if this is being covered, where is it? http://www.nytimes.com/

[maddezmom]

8. let's see if they do something tomorrow, as they had an Editorial today

supporting Waxman's quest for the truth

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/27/opinion/27fri2.html?_r=1&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fT%2fTillman%2c%20Pat&oref=slogin

Editorial
Seeking the Truth About Pat Tillman
Published: July 27, 2007
The Pentagon indicated yesterday that several high-ranking officers will soon be punished for misleading investigators probing the 2004 death of Cpl. Pat Tillman, the Army Ranger who became an icon in the administration’s war on terror but who was later found to have been killed by friendly fire. While this could provide a measure of accountability, it should not stop Representative Henry A. Waxman from pursuing his dogged efforts to get to the bottom of this convoluted and troubling case.

Corporal Tillman, who walked away from a lucrative football contract to enlist in the Army after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004, in a hail of fire from fellow Rangers who mistakenly believed that his small group was an enemy force.

That Corporal Tillman was killed by friendly fire appears to have be known to his fellow soldiers within a day of the incident, if not sooner. But at some point in the first few days another story was concocted asserting that he had died from enemy fire as he heroically tried to help the unit that shot him. The truth did not emerge — and was not conveyed to his family — until more than a month had gone by and a well-publicized and widely televised memorial service had taken place.

Mr. Waxman, who runs the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, is asking three basic questions: Who initiated the phony story? How far up the chain of command did the deception go? And what did the White House know?

more at the link

[Faygo Kid]

11. Fair enough, and thanks. We've just seen this kind of thing swept under the rug.

I can see it now: Bush and Tony Snow can't comment because it's an "ongoing investigation." Then, when a report verifies that it was murder, it will be time to "put this tragic episode behind us." And the media will accept that canard, and move on to Lindsay Lohan's next bust.

Seven years and counting. More of the same. I hope you are right.

[Faygo Kid]

2. Your point is very well taken. This should be a huge, huge story. There they go again.

Another example of the hopelessness of getting the mainstream media to cover stuff that hurts the Bush Administration. They are so scared that Rush Limbaugh might criticize them that they just don't bother anymore.

[malaise]

6. It will be next week

The rats are cornered.

[BlackHawk706867]

3. Nope, it's just another WH cover up because they are/have been implicated...

in the Tillman death. It would seem that this is probably a case of murder, and who was involved still remains a mystery thanks to this wonderful Administration with their Executive Privilege card again...

ww

[msongs]

7. its been on cbs news radio, the LA Times, our local paper nt

[Robbien]

9. I think that was part of the reason why they made such a big deal

of an astronaut being drunk.

For a while there the NASA lady giving the press statement was on every single cable news station. Get the people talking about some pissant NASA story because it appeared the Ritchie drunk driving story wasn't big enough to drown out all the other stories such as Tillman and the Stock Market and the DoJ constitutional crisis.

[TheBaldyMan]

12. because the pentagon press release didn't mention it.

[Mutineer]

13. Because it's still a conspiracy theory?

without any firm evidence to support it? :shrug: