I just read another column in which the author announces that he is certain that Fox News Channel must have been hacking into the phone text messages of American politicians and celebrities. This is about the fifth such column that has appeared in the last few weeks. No one has any evidence of any sort that such hacking has happened, the authors just "know" that it must have happened. This string of columns amazed me, and not because the media would publish a column containing nothing but speculation. I find it incredible that the media in the USA spends time on such nonsense while letting real stories go by unreported.
Think of it this way. We now know that in 2008, many news reporters covering the presidential primaries knew that John Edwards was having an affair with Rielle Hunter. They may not have known about all the shenanigans involving Bunny Mellon and her millions used to fund the coverup of the affair, but they knew about the affair. Edwards was a presidential candidate with a reasonable chance to win the nomination. Even so, the media did not publish a word about the affair. Indeed, even when the National Enquirer broke the story, the other media remained silent. They had evidence, but never covered the story.
Now we have the reverse. There is no evidence of any wrongdoing at FNC or any of the other News Corp properties in the USA. We know that this happened at the now defunct News of the World in London. We do not know of any proof that it happened anywhere else. Nevertheless, we get the story of probable wrongdoing at FNC, but no evidence.
Just once, I would like to think that the main stream media makes decisions on what to cover on a non-political basis. Their conduct, however, makes me doubtful that day will ever come.
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