Eric Boehlert’s Salon piece yesterday on “Bush’s Missing Year” — the strange lacunae in our president’s service records — is a must-read if, like me, you continue to wonder why this story has never quite broken out in the mainstream media the way it should. The process by which the American press collectively decides what stories have “legs” and which ones should be buried remains fascinating, bizarre and far more important to our political process than it should be. Journalism schools should be throwing their resources at this! First chronicle it, exhaustively; then teach a new generation of writers and editors of ways to bypass it. On optimistic days I share the Internet idealism that suggests this sort of “gatekeeping” is doomed; but there’s still plenty of cause for pessimism.
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