Matt Drudge and his feisty Drudge Report site often illuminates the Left’s current woes.
It’s no accident that Rush Limbaugh regularly recites Drudge headlines on his hugely popular radio show. So while it’s fair to label The Drudge Report as a “right leaning” outlet, that doesn’t mean the site ignores stories that could damage the Right. Or, articles which paint the U.S. military in an unflattering light.
That takes us back to the Abu Ghraib scandal, the detainee abuse nightmare the Bush Administration endured at the height of the Iraq War. The press had a proverbial field day covering it, and it formed a media template that lasted for months, if not years.
The New York Times featured the scandal on its front page 50-plus times.
Earlier this month, a few news outlets broke a similar story regarding U.S. troops abusing dead Afghanistan civilians. Drudge has been there all along, linking to the various stories breaking on the subject. It’s awful stuff, no doubt. But where is the wall to wall media coverage? The damning editorials? The round the clock reports that tie the material inextricably to the war effort at large and, naturally, to the president?
Hmm. Could it be that the person in the Oval Office affects how the media covers news like this?
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