Jo's Cafe

Nick over at redstate.org has a well-written commentary on the coverage of the “Able Danger” and Sheehan stories. Here’s how he starts out:

Any time I see the media waving a bright, shiny object in front of us, my first thought is to wonder what it is they don’t want us to look at. To those of us who have a few miles on us, the ridiculous spectacle going on in Crawford, Texas right now is just a re-run of 1970′s antiwar hoo-hah, as brought to us by the 1970′s antiwar media and their “newsmakers” from the George Soros Tabernacle Choir.

Yes, they’re all antiwar, and yes, they want to pummel the Republican in the White House in whatever way they can, and I suppose that getting their hands on a genuine Grieving Mother to wave in our faces is not something they have to play with every day, but even so…

One has to wonder whether we’d all be speaking German now if television had been around in the 1940′s. Maybe not. Can anyone even imagine the media giving voice to a distraught, grieving mother who lost her son at Normandy, demanding that the war be ended? The bunch of them would have been shot.

But never mind that. The real issue is what’s happening that is so important that the media needs to wave a bright, shiny object in front of us to keep us from looking.

I don’t watch/read much MSM coverage, of anything. Story selection as part of the media is a factor that simply cannot be eliminated because a media outlet MUST make strategic decisions regarding what to cover and at what levels. However, to see a story like this brewing and NOT give it any attention….I’m sorry, but that is clear and obvious media bias.