No, I don't think that so much as that going after "Monicagate" obviously backfired because American culture now tolerates that behavior. We're not required to like it, we're only required to accept reality.Now if you are for changing that reality, I submit that your target is broadcast journalism. Broadcasting amplifies the influence of journalism, and broadcasting needs journalism to justify its own existence.
Broadcasting needs to justify its existence for the simple reason that it only exists by grace of the FCC and would face catastrophic results if the FCC went out of business. And in fact what the FCC does is to censor all but a select few who have licenses; anyone not wearing blinders would see that to be a violation of the First Amendment.
So we have the spectacle of assiduous immitation of the print press, and especially of the NY Times, by broadcast journalism. The con is that if they all agree then none of them must be "biased." That suppresses the truth in favor of herd journalism.
No, I don't think that so much as that going after "Monicagate" obviously backfired because American culture now tolerates that behavior. We're not required to like it, we're only required to accept reality.
I can't believe I have to say this on FR - it wasn't about sex!!!! The evidence in the Ford building changed the minds of 40 or so Republicans in the House that were iffy about impeachment. Schippers has stated they had all kinds of stuff they weren't allowed to present - things that would have swayed the public the way they did the people in congress who bothered to look.
I don't know of any other plausible reasons not to release that evidence other than the GOP will have some serious dirt released on its key members as well. Mutual Assured Destruction works so very well.