Media, with brave exceptions, fear Epstein and similar stories. Reasons:

[pbmus]

Link to tweet

[safeinOhio]

1. That poor little girl

Hope she ends up with 10s of millions.

[fierywoman]

12. Or they give her Mar al Lago.

[crazytown]

16. To torch for fun

[getagrip_already]

2. I wonder if there are tapes.. or if the enquirer has some of the stories.....

That might explain a lot about why the media doesn't attack in certain cases.

Media stars are very wealthy. So are owners of media empires. They could have been compromised.

[SallyHemmings]

4. Putin just may have the tapes

[uponit7771]

8. +1, I've been saying for years the "pee" tapes are of underage women not just someone having a ..

... sex act with small fingers.

Red Don has no shame, could care less what normal adults think of him.

[jrthin]

26. I agree. Who cares if adults are peeing on each other. Children are another matter.

[mr_lebowski]

28. I think that's possible, but I also think it's equally possible he's doing the peeing

And that what's on tape is not a oh-lets-do-the-pee-thing-cause-we're-couple-o-fetishists-and-this-our-bag ... but rather something involving significant and obvious degradation of a very-questionably-willing ... uh ... partner.

[dlk]

3. Kendzior Nails It & I Would Add #6., Fear of Losing Access

Many important stories never get told because reporters truly fear losing access. I was told this, firsthand, by a reporter for a major midwestern newspaper in the hallway of the state courthouse.

[pbmus]

5. Bingo...access is a key

[Ford_Prefect]

22. One more is fear of the power and connections that scale of moneyed privilege can bring to bear.

One can suffer a great many closed opportunity doors in future for a little truth telling today.

[jrthin]

27. What is the point of having access if you can only report what "they"

want you to report?

[uponit7771]

31. +1, it was in the movie JFK also ...

[BritVic]

6. As someone replies to that tweet, in the UK press won't delve too deeply into Epstein either...

...because of Prince Andrew's alleged involvement.

[smirkymonkey]

7. K&R

This just makes me so angry. They destroy lives and walk away with not so much as a slap on the wrist because they are rich, white, republican men.

[dlk]

9. Epstein Was Friends with Nearly Everybody

He had “the best” parties...

[Kurt V.]

10. K&R

She's spot on as usual.

[EveHammond13]

11. there are a lot of people who believe that laws and moral rules do not apply to them because Money.

[thucythucy]

13. The cynic in me says it's mostly reasons four and five.

Or is that only the realist in me?

[stillcool]

19. it's the realist..

monopolized media takes care of its own.

[NurseJackie]

15. The incestuous images of Trump and Ivanka still disturb me...

... and I'm confident that it's NOT "just my imagination".

[bluestarone]

17. WOW no kidding!!

They are SICK!!!

[True Blue American]

18. With Trumps fascination with sex

Nothing would surprise me.

[Hekate]

23. They are unbelievably creepy. She is very tall for her age, but looks all of 12-14 years old.

He's very knowing in his look, and very possessive in his posture -- and the photos are very sexual.

[NurseJackie]

30. It's sickening.

[DallasNE]

20. You Cover My Back, I'LL Cover Yours

Sounds about right

[FJeff]

21. can O' worms

Bill Clinton might be dragged into this as it unfolds.

[Hekate]

25. Don't go there, FJeff, unless you have more than the RW smear attempt from years ago. nt

[KY_EnviroGuy]

24. If there's a single good thing that comes out of Trump's time...

it will be at least a partial exposure of the dark, invisibile web of the lives of high-wealth people.

Hidden corruption, hidden assets, lawlessness and general amorality - the general public is getting at least a peek.....

[mr_lebowski]

29. I'd say there's another reason for 'similar stories' ... it makes the news VERY un-family-friendly

People with kids will turn off the news/not watch it at all when their kids are around if a story like Epstein's is getting a lot of airtime.