Doug Ross @ Journal

The Modern Slave Trade isn't Dowd-Worthy News

If you strip away the Microsoft Word-generated Air National Guard memos, Hillary Clinton arguing with Donald Rumsfeld, Al Qaqaa, John Murtha tarring U.S. troops, staged photos of Hezbollah's human shields, Newsweek's fake but accurate Quran-flushing reports... if you strip away almost all of what passes for news over the past few years, what are we left with?

The real stories. The important stories. The stories that CBS, Newsweek, and the Gray Lady should be covering. But don't.

No, it's left up to the Bush State Department, vilified for lo these many years, to continue to expose the vast scope of the modern slave trade. Perhaps the mainstream media hasn't had enough time to research this "real news". After all, this is only the sixth annual Trafficking In Persons Report.

Hey, only about 800,000 people are bought and sold each year, so I suppose Abu Graib, Haditha, Halliburton, and the occasional, TV-friendly car bomb detonation should have top priority. Surely you can't expect the likes of Maureen Dowd to winch themselves off their ample derrieres, do some real investigation, and write about true evil and injustice?

After all, it only involves sexual slavery, child beggars, forced domestication, starvation, unreported rapes, beatings, and deaths, so I suppose these miserable souls -- numbering well under a million -- don't deserve any investigative reporting. Leave it up to the State Department! The mainstream media has fake but accurate stories to cover!

Do me a favor. Click on any of the following search links for 'modern slave trade' at the LA Times, the New York Times, CBS News, or ABC News, just as a little test. See if the Axis of Ignorance -- Dowd, Herbert, and Rich -- has called timeout on pillorying the Administration and the U.S. Military for a day to highlight what can only be called the inner rings of hell.

I'll sit here and whistle for a while as you go and peruse those links.

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You see, the modern slave trade really isn't worth covering.

Because investigating this scourge on humanity would require scape-goating parties other than the Bush Administration and the U.S. Military. It would require delving into the true nature of evil. It would require reporting. And, heaven knows, the mainstream media doesn't have any time for that.

Related:
Fox News: U.S. Warns Germany to Do More to Stop Human Trafficking
Hugh Hewitt: So this is how the Thirties felt
State Department's 2006 Trafficking In Persons Report