In "Hogan's Heroes," a TV comic series set in a Nazi prison camp, John Banner played Sgt. Hans Schultz, a POW-barracks keeper who was so eager to keep his bribes from the POWs flowing that he willfully could overlook anything the POWs tried to pull. His comic, oft-repeated punch line was, "I see nothing! I know nothing!" Sometimes he included, "I hear nothing!" too.
It's apparent that the mainstream media have adopted Schultz as their news model. No one who follows the legacy media expected the Katie Courics and Grey Ladies of the media industry to do anything about Climategate other than what they have done - ignore it except for a few desultory stories whose angles form an apologia for the massive fraud that practically defines climate science for the last 20 years or more.
Example one, grabbed from Google News Nov. 26 about 9:40 p.m.:
Note there are almost 4,400 feeds associated with this topic, which appeared as a headline topic on Google News last evening.
But surely there are even more feeds for Climategate, now several days old? Right? Wrong.
But maybe the MSM haven't picked up the term, "climategate" yet. So let's search for "climate emails." More for that, 2,497.
Now search for "obama copenhagen" - 17,541.
What is impressive, though negatively, is the MSM's studious and deliberate Sgt. Schulz act about the Climate research Unit scandal. Even Leftist and diehard global warmist George Monbiot gets it: "Pretending the climate email leak isn't a crisis won't make it go away." Not that he's changed his mind about global warming, mind you. He just accuses "deniers" of cheating worse.
As Glenn Reynolds has pointed out, there was a time when the media thought their job was to tell you what you needed to know. Now they think their job is to withhold things they don't want you to know.
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