“In a rather bizarre move Friday, the Washington Post published an appeal to Fox News to ‘Investigate Gruber’s Remarks,'” John Nolte writes at Big Journalism:
The Post’s argument is a snipe hunt. If Fox News did exactly as the Post requested, history proves it would change nothing. The important investigative work Fox has already done on stories like Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the IRS, and even ObamaCare, are usually ignored, downplayed, or Media Matters’d by the likes of the Washington Post.
If six freakin’ videos aren’t enough to grab the media’s attention, nothing will. And even if Fox News did dig up a bigger bombshell a few weeks from now, the MSM would dismiss it as “old news.”
After six years of President Obama, how the media works its protection racket is not a secret.
Although the Post is one of the few mainstream media outlets to cover Gruber’s remarks, the Post has also been careful to spin the story as either a partisan issue (using headlines about how Republicans are outraged) or as an outright nothingburger (this is how the sausage is made).
[WaPo blogger Erik Wemple] seems to want to argue that a story — backed by six videos of a man frequently trotted out as an ObamaCare expert by high-ranking Democrats like Nancy Pelosi — isn’t quite buttoned up, or isn’t a story until the whole story can be told.
Geez, wait’ll Wemple discovers Woodward & Bernstein — that is, if anybody still remembers them at the Post.
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