Thursday, April 27, 2006

Media Memory Muddle

The Blog | Arianna Huffington: Ken Lay on Trial: Why are the Media Forgetting the Bush/Cheney Connection? | The Huffington Post:

"Reading the MSM's coverage of Ken Lay's testimony -- side by side with its coverage of George Bush's latest bleating about energy -- I've been struck by how little discussion there is of Lay's and Enron's deep connections to Bush, Cheney, and the White House's energy company-dictated energy policy.

It would be like flash-forwarding four years to some future trial of Jack Abramoff and hearing nothing about Tom DeLay.

It's another symptom of the media's long-term memory disorder. Suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder, they can only focus on the thing in front of them -- and even then not for very long before moving on to the next shiny bauble (Tony Snow called Bush 'impotent'! Natalie Holloway's still missing -- and still getting airtime on Larry King).

So instead of reminding us of all the reasons why Enron was even more of a political scandal than a business scandal, the media narrative has turned the case into a simple he said/he said story pitting 'folksy' Ken Lay against repentant Raptor boy, Andy Fastow. . ."

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