media outlets continue to treat the eavesdropping scandal ..as a game.

[rodeodance]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/1559359;_ylt=Am7COlAAB7wbxZPn5XIPfyms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-

Feingold's Call for Checks and Balances




The Nation Sun Feb 12, 9:56 AM ET

The Nation -- Americans ought be listening to Russ Feingold in these defining days for the Republic, because what the Democratic senator from Wisconsin is saying goes to the heart of the question of whether a nation founded in revolt against monarchy will be ruled by laws or by the crude whims of an intemperate sovereign and his out-of-control administration.
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Feingold has been fighting for weeks to get the Congress to address the issue of
President Bush's illegal approval of warrantless wiretapping of Americans. A small but growing group in Congress, including some prominent Republicans -- most recently, U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson (news, bio, voting record), R-N.M., the chair of the House Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence, who this week called for a "complete review" of the National Security Agency domestic spying program -- have begun echoing Feingold's demand that the Constitutional crisis created by the president's wrongdoing be taken seriously.

But too many major media outlets continue to treat the eavesdropping scandal as little more than a political game. They chart the progress of the critics and then measure the extent to which the administration's spin has limited the damage to the president's approval ratings.

Frustrated by the game playing, Feingold went to the floor of the Senate last Tuesday in an effort to break through the spin and speak the blunt truths of the moment........

[Robb]

1. "We" (TAP) want winners and losers

It's hard to distinguish the writing formula between a politics story and a sports story lately. :(