Media bias
Media bias. It has now been some weeks since a small alternative paper in San Fran published the story about Sen. Diane Feinstein. She sat on the subcommittee which had oversight over Pentagon building and services contracts.
Her husband, in the same time period, owned companies which received hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts from the Defense Department.
Private companies.
She recently accepted a reassignment to a less powerful subcommittee. Given the great amount of attention (no link needed) to HALLIBURTON, and its connections, in recent times, it is a little puzzling that none of the great news organs has pursued this.
It’s simply not a story. Now I don’t know that anything illegal has transpired. Maybe I’m not enough of a lawyer to use “recusal” in a sentence. Maybe there’s a teaching moment to be had about public service and ethics. But, it’s simply not a story.
If you Google it, there is coverage. On the first page, however, the only large media entry was the SFChronicle. No large media organs with vast resources. And certainly no references to Halliburton. I’m not surprised at the number of entrees, because this story is of quite some interest to bloggers.
But it’s not a STORY. No daily, above the fold WPNYT treatment.
IS SHE GUILTY?
WHEN WILL SHE RESIGN?
MAJORITY MAY BE IN PERIL.
Over to you, Katie.
