the news item you are not being told about

For once, I am not going to fill space talking about climate change or food or chemicals.  This is going to be a blurb about media literacy.

I posted earlier about what the media isn’t telling you about swine flu.  But, there is something else the major media conglomerates have decided to not tell you about either: a pulitzer prize winner.

From Salon.com:

The New York Times‘ David Barstow won a richly deserved Pulitzer Prize yesterday for two articles that, despite being featured as major news stories on the front page of The Paper of Record, were completely suppressed by virtually every network and cable news show, which to this day have never informed their viewers about what Barstow uncovered.

What did he uncover?  That retired generals, that were working with major news outlets, were co-opted by the Pentagon to make the case for the Iraq war.  In fact, this is what was written about what Brian Williams of NBC had to say on that evening’s broadcast:

No mention that among the five NYT prizes was one for investigative reporting.  Williams did manage to promote the fact that one of the award winners was an MSNBC contributor, but sadly did not find the time to inform his viewers that NBC News’ war reporting and one of Williams’ still-featured premiere “independent analysts,” Gen. Barry McCaffrey, was and continues to be at the heart of the scandal for which Barstow won the Pulitzer.  Williams’ refusal to inform his readers about this now-Pulitzer-winning story is particularly notable given his direct personal involvement in the secret, joint attempts by NBC and McCaffrey to contain P.R. damage to NBC from Barstow’s story, compounded by the fact that NBC was on notice of these multiple conflicts as early as April, 2003, when The Nation first reported on them.

So why should you care?  Because the media is supressing a story.  A benign story at that.  So, it makes you wonder… what more to it is there?  And if they are withholding information on this, possibily because of corporate obligation, don’t you wonder what else they are withholding for those same reasons?

This was a prize won by a journalist who discovered that generals were being paid by the White House and the Pentagon to sell us the Iraq War through the use of mainstream media.  If you were a true journalist, like Couric, Williams, Brokaw, and all claim to be, wouldn’t you be mad that you had been lied to?  So why is it they are not mad and not telling you what happened?