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December 02, 2014
Media: Our Coverage of Elizabeth Lauten is Totes Warranted and Even If It's A Little Bit of Overkill, That's Just Because It's a Slow News Cycle, Not Because of Partisan Animus
Really?
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So, the WaPo is now devoting a Foreign Policy reporter to scouring Lauten's old papers.
Meanwhile, CNN's Brian Stelter swears this is just because it's a "slow news cycle." When it was pointed out to him there was also a slow news cycle which failed to produce any media interest in Jon Gruber's admissions about how Obamacare was passed, he told me that's because I don't understand how newsrooms operate-- that they're looking for 'new" news, and Gruber's remarks, allegedly, were not "new."