Ignoring the news

Jonathan Singer at MyDD bemoans the sad state of our media -- this time in the context of the Bush firings of U.S. Attorneys who were investigating Republicans:

The fact that so many of these attorneys, all of whom were appointed by President Bush (and thus are not susceptible to charges of liberal bias), were investigating corruption among the GOP caucuses on Capitol Hill raises some serious questions about the motivations of the Bush administration. What's more, it also raises serious questions about the media's unwillingness to cover this story with even a tenth of the fervor with which they dealt with relatively unimportant scandals like Whitewater and Monica-gate during the previous administration. Had President Clinton even considered firing a prosecutor looking into corrupt Democratic Party officials, the David Broders of the world would have been up in arms, not resting until each of the fired attorneys was restored to his or her office. But such a move by the Bush administration elicits coverage at the bottom of a story on page 11 of The Post and few other mentions from the pillars of the establishment media beyond that.