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Couric should look in mirror
Now that White House "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones has resigned, what's next?
Inevitably, the American mainstream media - ABC, NBC, CBS, the New York
Times, the Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, et al - must be held to
account for sitting on the sidelines as this major story kept building
without them, went viral on YouTube, and then became so large that a
key appointee of President Obama was forced to step down.
But with their decision to ignore the Jones story, they may
have actually done Mr. Obama far more harm than good: Who vetted this
guy? How did he get past the FBI? What did he say, and how did he
answer the infamous seven-page questionnaire that all Obama appointees
were required to fill out? Inquiring Freedom of Information Act minds
want to know.
For most people in this country, the resignation was the first
they had heard of Van Jones. For this sin of journalistic omission,
there's institutional media blame. Bias is too tame a word for the
utter shamelessness on display: Only Republican scandals - real and
imagined - matter. [continue]
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