WTF Is It Now?!?

For some, 'investigative journalism' = checking how much KY is left in the medicine cabinet

Then there's Steven Day, who has a good piece on the Enron Admin / news media circle jerk at PopPolitics.com: "When News Doesn't Make the News - All reporters need to question what they're told."

'Whether or not George W. Bush wants to admit it, he owes the news media a lot. On issue after issue -- increased government secrecy, tax cuts for the wealthy, broken promises on issues like the environment and Social Security -- the media has largely given Bush a pass by failing to challenge the official administration line. Even with Enron and the possible botched opportunities to prevent Sept. 11, the press, after brief initial feeding renzies, quickly redirected the stories away from Bush. If we are to judge journalism by the Washington press elite, it would appear that the art of honest-to-God investigative journalism is in retreat -- and has been for
some time.'

And Paul Krugman, who hits another home run with 'Evils of Access':

'As Senate investigators examine evidence on the administration's Enron contacts, the White House counsel, Alberto Gonzales, has already delivered the verdict: Everything's fine, because officials did nothing to help Enron as it was collapsing. I believe him. I also believe that the administration played no role in the death of Elvis Presley, an equally relevant assertion.'

As BuzzFlash so pithily put it, 'why can't Tom Daschle make this a speech on the Senate floor?'

Can't forget Molly Ivins: 'What took so long? - Cheney's Halliburton reign thick with crude accounting and glaring contradictions.'

'Dick Cheney's record at Halliburton is one of the most under-covered stories of the past three years. When you consider all the time and ink spent on Whitewater, the neglect of the Cheney-Halliburton story is unfathomable.'