Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post: Big News or No News (via IP)
Reporters love leaks. Can't get enough of 'em. The juicier the leak, the more sensitive the disclosure, the more likely you are to see it splashed on the front page.
But lately there have been a series of leaks that haven't gotten all that much attention outside of the conservative corner of the profession.
Which raises the following possibilities:
1) Mainstream reporters are sulking about having been beat.
2) The stories aren't all that great.
3) The establishment press reacts differently when conservatives break stories, assume it's part of the vast right-wing conspiracy and try to knock down the allegations.
I'm not an intelligence expert, and divining the finer points of the weight of evidence from spy reports about Iraq is obviously difficult, as the yearlong debate over WMD has shown. But I can't help but think that if some of these stories had been obtained by one of our mainstream media muckety-mucks, as opposed to Sean Hannity or the Weekly Standard, it would be treated as a much bigger deal.
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
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