Barstow wins Pulitzer for military analysts story; will networks notice?

Notice? Notice? How will they have the time, Jamison?

There is only so much time in a day to cover Bo, how many teleprompters Obama used, how deeply he bowed and how he shaked hands.

Good lord, be merciful on the poor overworked MSM Villagers!

Congatulations to Mr. David Barstow, for being awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism, in the category of Investigative Reporting. 

Investigative Reporting. 

That's a powerful word, Investigate Investigative and Investigation: it sounds like it's a word that describes a function of Law and Government, and it is. 

That's what cops do, in homicides and bank robberies and other assaults and thefts: they investigate the crime or matter or event... they set themselves to finding out the truth behind what has happened, and having found that truth, they then report it to other authorities, like the District or State's Attorney, for charges and prosecution of a crime perhaps, or other action... and in turn any prosecution in a Court of Law, is like reporting the results of the investigation to a Judge, maybe for punishment of the crime, but at least for an airing or Hearing of the results of the investigation... and when all those wheels turn, and turn each other, then the whole thing becomes a report to the People: the investigation turns full circle, and then informs and is reported to the People, at least for their consideration, and maybe even for their protection too (by way of punishing those who would harm them or steal or otherwise abuse their property). 

It's as serious and important a function of Law and Government as there is, and it's a sequence that begins with an investigation, and proceeds (perhaps) through to charges and prosecutions and Hearings and Judgments and maybe punishments, all for the benefit of People (because who else can it be that Law and Government serves), and again, it all begins in an Investigation. 

What Mr. David Barstow did, when he wrote "Behind TV Analysts", was conduct an investigation that perhaps our supposed Law enforcement authorities should have taken an interest in (the jurisdiction being the Public Airwaves, and an abuse of them by the FCC License holders we trust to use that public resource), and the findings and truth of Mr. Barstow's investigation were then reported directly to the American People, in the pages of The New York Times, for their consideration at least and protection at best, as to this infuriating abuse of their Public Airwaves, where DEFENSE CONTRACTORS and LOBBYISTS, disguised as "military analysts", took to Fox News Channel and NBC and MSNBC and CNN and others, to sell those American People an invasion and occupation of IRAQ, that cost so many hundreds of billions of dollars that the number may well easily exceed a trillion dollars, and cost also life and limb that has seen so far the deaths of 4,274 U.S. Troops in IRAQ...

And the whole time all that money was being siphoned out of the U.S. Treasury, and that all those Soldiers were being killed in IRAQ, these "military analysts" were not only selling IRAQ and cheering it on, on the Public Airwaves, they were cashing million dollar paychecks, multi-million dollar paychecks, from DEFENSE CONTRACTORS (who these "military analysts" were often themselves) and as DEFENSE INDUSTRY LOBBYISTS, all of that money as their "broker's fee" or "sales commision" or otherwise payola for IRAQ... 

You might think the whole thing was a crime... I do. 

You might think that what David Barstow reported to the American People, was the findings and truth of an investigation, that uncovered if not a crime, then at least something that should involve the wheels of Law and Government, that should involve Hearings at least... I think that. 

But no wheels turned that I saw... no Law and Government functions involved themselves in this matter, this matter of DEFENSE CONTRACTORS disguised as "military analysts" on the Public Airwaves, selling the American People all of the death and expense of IRAQ. 

It's a crime, and a crying shame. 

But we at least have Mr. David Barstow to thank, for his Investigative Reporting in this matter... that's always the start: get the truth, and report it. 

Congratulations to all involved.  The Prize is well deserved, and can hardly be enough, for the value of what was done to win it... for the Investigation, and the Investigative Reporting of David Barstow.  

And you know what is another truth, that deserves every bit as much an Investigation, and deserves also an uncovering and a reporting to the American People? 

How come Fox News Channel and NBC and MSNBC and CNN and the others, are ignoring this report of DEFENSE CONTRACTORS disguised as "military analysts" on the Public Airwaves? 

That would make a nice follow-up piece to Mr. Barstow's original Investigative Reporting... that might win a Pulitzer also... that might turn the wheels of Law and Government, seeing as the Jurisdiction is the Public Airwaves, and the crime is one of fraud, and the price paid was a trillion dollars of the American People's money, and the lives of over 4,200 U.S. Troops in IRAQ... and not only was no one punished, but no one was even confronted, no one was asked to explain. 

It just got nothing but a Guilty silence, from Fox News Channel and NBC and MSNBC and CNN and the others... a Guilty silence from them, and millions and even billions of dollars, for the DEFENSE CONTRACTORS disguised as "military analysts" they aired on our Public Airwaves.