ConWeb ignores LeakGate...Go Figure...I'm Shocked..j/kidding

The ConWeb reacts predictably to the Valerie Plame outing scandal. Plus: WorldNetDaily is reading ConWebWatch ... just not closely enough, subtle bias at CNSNews.com, a blogger busts NewsMax, and another Then and Now.

The ConWeb has generally reacted in one of two ways to scandals related to the Bush administration: downplaying their importance and blaming the messenger, or ignoring it as much as it can get away with. And so it goes with the administration's apparent outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame.

WorldNetDaily is taking the let's-try-to-ignore-it approach. To date (four days after the rest of the media have been all over it), it has generated no original news story about it, not even one of those acts of thievery -- er, repurposing content from other news organizations under a WND byline; all news stories have been outside links. And only two opinion pieces that have appeared on the subject under the WND banner thus far: a reprint of an article from National Review alleging Plame's CIA job wasn't all that secret, and a column by Robert Novak, who outed Plame, defending his actions.

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At the Media Research Center, Brent Baker is complaining that the TV networks aren't reporting to his satisfaction about Wilson's "left wing and Democratic persuasion," then quotes a "befuddled" Aaron Brown asking at CNN, "What does Ambassador Wilson's politics have to do with either the leak or his wife's job?" Good question; too bad Baker thinks he doesn't need to answer it, because we'd like to know, too.

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http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2003/update100203.html