Salon’s among the first of the US’s online left-wing magazines to pick up on the now-infamous UK memo that hinted that President Bush wanted to bomb Al Jazeera. It’s a run-through of events at the time of the memo, so you get to see everything in context. Whether the memo is being correctly reported or not, it’s clear Rummy and co have gone through the looking glass on a couple of issues.
Salon’s usual take – why has the mainstream media not picked up on this until now? – is starting to annoy though: you are the mainstream media; stop acting like you’re outsiders still. Why didn’t you pick this up until now? It’s not like you wouldn’t have known within minutes via a Google News subscription, and your content deals with The Guardian and Der Spiegel surely would have helped if you had missed it.
Perhaps if Salon could refrain from the kind of preaching that gives liberals a bad name in the US and put its efforts into making its voice heard, maybe other media outlets would join in instead of ignoring otherwise important events.