A Really Big Reason Why The Nation's Sinking

"The press came late to the story. The mainstream media almost had to be dragged to it. It was there waiting to be told at least by the 1990s, but broadcast news shows and big newspapers weren't keen to go after it."

-- Peggy Noonan, talking about coverage of the Catholic church's child abuse scandal (not John Edwards) but still outlining the awful truth about journalists, and the mainstream media, today - they pick and choose what we ought to know, regardless of the truth or the story's worth to the public - using silence to reveal their biases (and, thus, worthlessness) to everyone, including The Wall Street Journal.