REB 84 makes a good point when he comments that as Americans keep dying in Iraq, the media is overly obsessed with Mark Foley.
While I disagree with REB 84’s implication that the Foley mess is not newsworthy—it’s VERY newsworthy, especially the fact that the Republican leadership had at least an inkling of what was going on, yet did nothing about it—I do agree that we need to keep focus on Iraq, where things do not seem to be getting any better. And if you need a reminder, the front of the morning daily’s offering it today, in gut-wrenching fashion.
This article appears in Oct 5-11, 2006.
I didn’t mean to imply the Foley story is not newsworthy. However, the rehashing of old details and the nitpicking and misinformation being Drudged up are way out of proportion to all the other things going on in the world.
I did not mean to imply that the Foley story is not newsworthy. However, the almost non-stop coverage is way out of proportion with its significance in the bigger scheme of things.