[beethovenfan]

Gee I wonder why? Paging Captain Obvious!

[GOPJ]

The reason for the media's silence on this story has nothing to do with its merits, and everything to do with who might be hurt by it.

The people the press is trying to protect are themselves. With all the downsizing going on papers don't have the staff to do original investigative reporting... so they rely on DEMOCRAT OPERATIVES TO FEED THEM STORIES. The press can't afford to offend the 'hand that feeds them'...