Matt Tiabbi writes in the New York Press, an "alternative" newspaper, about the lack of media coverage concerning the end of the search for non-existant WMDs in Iraq.
O.J. was fun. Monica Lewinsky was fun. "America's New War" was fun - there was a war at the end of that rainbow. But "We All Totally Fucked Up" is not fun. You can't make a whole new set of tv graphics for "We All Totally Fucked Up." There is no obvious location where Wolf Blitzer can do a somber, grimacing "We All Totally Fucked Up" live shot (above an "Operation We All Totally Fucked Up" bug in the corner of the screen). Hundreds of reporters cannot rush to stores to buy special khakis or rain slickers or Kevlar vests in preparation for "We All Totally Fucked Up." They would have to wear their own clothes and stand, not in front of burning tanks or smashed Indonesian hovels, but in front of their own apartments.
I find it interesting that in Canada, our media, which is generally superior to that of the US, hasn't given this story much time either. However, there is a difference - most Canadians knew from the beginning that the US fucked up.