Reply #7: Watching this story unravel

[democrank]

was like watching some Highlighter God take his yellow pen and underline almost everything that`s wrong with the Bush administration.

We had secrecy, lies, contempt for law, recklessness, a lying Press Secretary, disregard for human life, misuse of the press, a MIA president and a full-throttle spin machine. Even the gated hunting compound, the choice of Fox News and Matalin`s mad scramble fit right in. Who should be surprised that the victim was blamed (remember New Orleans?)or that Bush would belatedly announce he was satisfied with Cheney`s performance? About the only thing missing was the bombing of the Corpus Cristi Times.

The media deserves some blame, not so much for how they covered this story but for all the other important stories they ignored. For all their highly paid tv stars and high-tech equipment, corporate media can handle only one in-depth news story at a time. Cheney`s disgusting behavior should have been a top story, but so should the deaths in Iraq, the new Abu Gahrib photos, the NSA scandal and a few dozen more.