NOVAK-GATE III
I’m not the only one puzzled by the low-key media treatment of the Wilson/Plame story: Steven Taylor notes than not even NPR is paying it much attention. Owing to waking up before 5 AM for no particular reason, I listened to the entire Morning Edition program today and also don’t recall it being mentioned.
Steven also notes that WaPo has two follow-ups today. As I noted in the comments section of a previous post, WaPo got onto the “big time media” map with Watergate by doing exactly this: Flogging a scandal that everyone else was largely ignoring. I don’t yet know whether this is the biggest presidential scandal since Watergate or merely a case of the paper that broke the story furiously trying to make more of it than meets the eye.
FWIW, Fox News discussed it each hour this morning, at one point in some depth with Dick Thornberg, who was on to promote the release of a new book. I didn’t see much of any news this weekend (on the road — yuck) but there were several mentions on Friday, and extensive coverage when the story first broke.
Yea, I don’t think I would count on it fading. Too much blood in the water. I really doubt the CIA would bring this forward if they weren’t committed to going the distance.
Story is too involved and confusing and we have a lot of claims but few facts (opinion journal has a good summary without taking sides).
Since this is hard to sum up in a few sound bites, it will be very hard to make into a big story.