"The media should be digging into the Epstein story to root out threats to our children. It’s alarming that the ghost of Epstein can inspire competitive news organizations to collude to suppress such an important story."

In American Greatness, Adam Mill writes,

...This isn’t about like-minded or politically corrupt “journalists” abandoning their independence for the sake of getting Trump. The Epstein story has real victims, often children, who were exploited as sex slaves for the benefit of rich and powerful people. While Epstein may no longer pose a threat to those children, left unidentified are predators who paid for access to the victims.

The market, including the black market, abhors a vacuum and new Epsteins undoubtedly have risen to meet the demand. It appears ABC and CBS collaborated to punish somebody they believed exposed ABC’s suppression of a story that might have identified some of these predators still among us. That’s strong evidence of an agreement to restrain the “trade” that both companies ply—the news.

This moves the needle of media corruption way beyond political bias. Our news media has a role in disseminating information for the sake of public safety and a free market normally would reward an organization that scooped its competitors. Because of the apparent ABC/CBS conspiracy, however, the public may be less aware of the threat posed by these predators. Authorities have a duty to investigate whether ABC/CBS conspired to keep from the public information that parents and authorities could have used to protect children from these predators.

...Under Department of Justice policies, however, media are “required to retain separate editorial and reporting staffs and to determine their editorial policies independently.” Is that happening? It doesn’t seem so when a phone call from ABC can result in a termination of a CBS employee for suspicion of committing the unforgivable act of reporting news!

If true, CBS should have responded to ABC’s request to fire the “whistleblower” with raucous laughter and the abrupt sound of the phone disconnecting. CBS should be running commercials championing the scoop of its competitor ABC’s corruption. It’s not. And that should concern Americans.

Thus an agreement between two news organizations to kill a story, arguably, is a restraint in trade.

...The First Amendment means nothing without a free and competitive media through which the various outlets act as checks upon each other. The media should be digging into the Epstein story to root out threats to our children. It’s alarming that the ghost of Epstein can inspire competitive news organizations to collude to suppress such an important story.

Read more here.

Covering for the powerful

In the Daily Caller, Shelby Talcott summarizes the recent news showing that ABC, CBS, and NBC all appear to have covered for some of the world's most powerful rape rings. Read it here.

Did you know the media believe in firing people who leak?

Once again, the story is in the Ace of Spades blog here.

NBC and ABC fail to report on the capture of five ISIS leaders

At Newsbusters, Nicholas Fondacaro reported,

There was a lot of winning for the United States this week between the release of three American hostages from North Korea, unemployment at 3.9 percent, and on Thursday news broke that the U.S. had captured five of ISIS’s top leaders. But depending on which of the major network news outlets you watch, you may not have heard about the captured leaders. CBS Evening News was the only member of the big three networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) to even mention it that evening. The national evening newscasts of Spanish-language Univision and Telemundo also kept quiet about it.



“Five senior ISIS leaders have been captured in a joint operation involving Iraqi and U.S.-backed Syrian forces,” announced anchor Jeff Glor ahead of the full report. “It is the latest defeat for the extremist group, which has lost nearly all of the territory it once held in Iraq and Syria.”

As Homeland Security correspondent Jeff Pegues began his report, he played clips of Iraqi television showing off their recent victory. “The ISIS commanders' confessions were broadcast on Iraqi television this morning. One by one, the men in the yellow jumpsuits and handcuffs admitted to being top Islamic State leaders,” he reported.

As explained by Pegues, coalition forces had captured one top leader and it triggered “an elaborate intelligence operation” which used his phone to lure four others into a trap in Iraq. “The Iraqi government said information gathered during interrogations led to an air force strike it claims killed another 40 ISIS terrorists,” he noted as a video of a large building being turned to rumble and dust played.

Read more here.

Are you ready for the next scandal?

ABC News doing the job it is supposed to do! Brian Ross reports:

The American government is giving and awarding thousands of dollars in military contracts to anti-American terrorist groups that are killing United States soldiers, Marines and service members.