I have no trust at all in the U.S. MSM. I get most of my news from alternative sources in the U.S. or foreign sources (I subscribe to the Economist, for example). The astounding thing is that the MSM boneheads are scratching their heads over why they are losing readership and viewership.

Christ!

Abu Ghraib

Uh, dude. Isn’t that my fucking point?

Christ.

This has been stewing for quite some time, and the interesting thing is that if you look at the way things normally transpire in the world, the Abkhazians and S. Ossetians actually have legit claims to independence. Especially the Abkhazians seeing as they beat the Georgian military when it mattered (after the fall of the USSR).

The other thing that isn’t being mentioned is that Georgia is essentially a Cold War battleground with the US-backed government of Georgia versus the Russian-backed ‘rebels’ in Abkhazia and S. Ossetia.

Abu Ghraib

The press sat on that for quite a while, at the behest of the Pentagon via the White House.

I’m not saying that discouraging this news isn’t questionable, but I don’t think it’s as big of a deal as you do. It’s news about someone who we don’t hear from much anymore and about someone who has already dealt with it privately. How do Americans benefit from this news? I know that these sorts of things get a lot of attention, but on the scale of things not covered…I would not place this at or near the top.

All of that being said, I like the influence that some forms of internet blogs have. It’s a healthy check on stuff like this, regardless of where one thinks it fits on the scale of important stories.

I think it’s fairly significant that this particular story was basically blacklisted for weeks, even though tons of bloggers and even Jay Leno were talking about it. I mean, this isn’t “just one example”, it’s “just one example… that happens to be about one of the potential front-runners for the Vice-Presidency”, and therefore a major news story… that was simply ignored outright.

If I were playing the “Red vs. Blue” game, I’d note that similar “restraint” was not shown when John McCain was alleged to have had an affair with Vicki Iseman nearly a decade ago.

But it’s not like a couple of news organizations here and there found other, more important stuff to cover instead. They all actively ignored it and in some cases discouraged employees from writing about it. As far as I’m concerned, that’s malfeasance.