Dave Lindorff: Ducking Impeachment in Congress and the Newsroom

[babylonsister]

Ducking Impeachment in Congress and the Newsroom
by Dave Lindorff | June 16, 2008


On Monday last week, something important happened in Washington. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the Democratic representative from Cleveland, OH, who early in the primary season won some of the biggest applause lines in the Democratic presidential candidate debates, introduced 35 articles calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush for high crimes and misdemeanors.

You'd be excused if you didn't know this happened. There was almost no reporting on the event that day or the next, which took several hours to accomplish, along with several hours Tuesday for to be read into the Congressional Record. Kucinich's address to the House was broadcast live on C-Span. But it was not announced in advance or highlighted on the C-Span website, and there were not many news reports on the historically significant fact that articles of impeachment had been filed against the president during subsequent days.

A week later, it has still not been reported in the New York Times, the nation's self-described "newspaper of record," even though the Times had just days before Rep. Kucinich's action, editorialized about the enormity of the president's lies in tricking the country into invading Iraq--one of the crimes leading Rep. Kucinich's long list.

A number of papers did editorialize against impeachment, including the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Florida Sun Sentinel--but it says something that these publications thought it more important to attack Rep. Kucinich's action than to actually report on it as a news item.

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[electropop]

1. What does does a criminal have to do to get arrested around here?

:puke:

One day, the media will pay. People will tire of mindless "reality show" fluff and simulated news, and tune them out.

As I have.

[Fireweed247]

3. yes

When they start losing money, then they will get the message but it will be too late. Their credibility will be shot for good and then they won't be able to control our elections anymore and cover up obvious fraud and crimes with idiotic bullshit. A girl can dream...

[CanonRay]

2. Nothing shows the sad state of our newsmedia as much as this.