4/20/23
The title paraphrases Ben Stein in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” asking for a missing person. Where are the big stories? The bulge under the carpet is getting bigger by the day. There are so many issues fading out of sight one wonders if there will be anything to talk about.
It starts with the “Russia, Russia, Russia” ruse and the multi-year Durham investigation of the investigation. Crickets for months. The most egregious use of the federal government instigated against a political rival is just another bygone story. Hunter’s tax and gun investigation. Huh? Origins of Covid anyone? Some snippets last week yes but any bona fide determination? Not yet. The Afghanistan debacle? Does anyone care that we left $80,000,000,000 of materiel in the Taliban’s hands? How many Americans are still left there along with those that helped us? How much post pandemic money is lost to fraud? Was the science really followed when addressing Covid? The list is long and grows by the day as some new issue diverts ours and our supposed 4th estate’s attention.
In this fast moving news cycle, yesterday’s tragedy is replaced by today’s weather forecast. In some media outlets it’s Trump, January 6th and catastrophic climate change day-after-day. Even the shiny object of FOX News getting its hand slapped is only going to last as long as the second installment of “Get FOX” falls. Where are the follow ups to what were the “crises of the day” stories of yesteryear? Investigative reporting apparently is no longer taught in journalism classes. Rather it seems its teeth whitening procedures and the proper use of pronouns.
As was the case with Mr. Stein, I’m wondering where these and other pertinent stories are.
Current Day Publius 