Latest Pajamas Media Column (’Three Big Stories, Three Media Disappearing Acts’) Is Up

It’s here.

It will go up here at BizzyBlog on Sunday morning (link won’t work until then) after the blackout expires.

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The three disappearing acts cited in the column are:

• The $80.7 billion in “reorganization gains” (i.e., gains resulting from the fleecing of taxpayers and creditors) recognized by “old” General Motors during the final days of its bankruptcy proceedings in early July. The earliest AP breakers after GM’s release of financial info on November 16 mentioned it. Subsequent reports, including this one, have not.
• During Thanksgiving, barely covering the homelessness situation, which is almost certainly worse nationwide and is definitely worse in certain parts of the country, and never, as far as I could tell, putting it into the context of the awful national economy.
• Trying to put a smiley face while hiding a thus far mediocre at best Christmas shopping season.

A fourth more important disappearing act is the one where the establishment media, particularly non-Fox network TV, has been trying to make Climategate disappear. Kyle Drennen at NewsBusters yesterday noted that it’s Day 13 of the steadfast refusal by ABC, CBS, and NBC to substantively cover the exposure of “scientists” who have come perilously close to reordering the world’s economic and political systems in the name of globaloney as a collection of data-manipulatiing, info-hiding, enemy-attacking charlatans. For cryin’ out loud, Jon Stewart has done more with the story than have the Big 3 nets.

Because of this see-nothing, hear-nothing, speak-nothing approach to an objectively important story, TV viewers who learn about it from alternative media and word-of-mouth will probably continue to perform their own disappearing acts and decide to go elsewhere for actual news.