Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds (AKA Instapundit) via Power Line:
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.... Just a few hours ago, Yon expressed puzzlement over the mainstream media's failure to follow up on the massacre that he documented with interviews and photographs. He even offered his text and photographs, free of charge, to any media outlets willing to re-publish them. I think it is outrageous that the AP will publish reports of mass murders based on hearsay accounts by pro-insurgent stringers, but will not report on a thoroughly documented, actual massacre by al Qaeda. Unlike Yon, however, I don't find the fact puzzling....
... UPDATE: Normally I wouldn't just blatantly steal from Glenn Reynolds, or anyone else. But this is a must-read, so I'm going to reproduce Glenn's post....
WHY DON'T AL QAEDA ATROCITIES GET MEDIA ATTENTION?
Because that might help Bush.
UPDATE: A journalist whose name you'd recognize emails:
Yon's story doesn't get attention because it is
humiliating.
It is humiliating because it is obvious that we media -
and our allies in the state department, the legal trade,
the NGOs, the Democratic Party, the UN, etc., - can't do
squat about such determined use of force.
Our words, images, arguments and skills can't stop the
killing. Only the rough soldiers and their guns can solve
the problem, and we won't admit that fact because the
admission would weaken our influence and our claim to
social status.
So we pretend Yon's massacre - and the North Korean
killing fields, the Arab treatment of women, the Arab
hatred of Israel, etc. - doesn't exist, and instead focus
our emotions and attention on the somewhat-bad domestic
things that we can `fix' with our DC-based allies. Things
such as Abu Ghraib, wiretapping, etc. When we `fix' them,
then we get status, applause, power, new jobs, ego, etc.
Please don't be surprised. We media are an interest group
not much different from the automakers, the unions, and
the farmers.
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