Things you don’t see in the news…
I got an email this morning from a fairly rampantly liberal friend of mine. He was waxing ecstatically over the following story:
Granted, Democracy Now is a website with a mission. You can hardly say they are not biased. But the filing of a lawsuit for war crimes against major officials or former officialsin our government does seem like news to me. So, I went online and checked Google’s news, usually my first stop for the major stories of the day…nothing. So, I starting looking at other front pages: New York Times. Nope. Washington Post. Score! CNET. Nada. International Herald Tribune. Uh-uh.
Frankly, I don’t know if you can make a charge like that stick. It seems to me first a reflection of the frustration many have over the foreign policy moves of the Bush administration over the last 6 years. But what really strikes me as interesting is how invisible this story is in the mainstream press. Don’t you find that a bit, well, disturbing? Makes me wonder what other major news I don’t know about, and why…