From Rolling Stone
In Washington, another tale of waste and fraud unpunished

By Matt Taibbi

There are small news stories, there are really small news stories, and then there is “Defense Institute Head Resigns,” a little maggot of a news item that blipped into the “D” section of the Washington Post last Wednesday. Three-hundred-fifty-six words in all, about half the length of an AP NFL game account, and the Post was the only paper in the country that ran the story. So how important could it have been?

Actually, the Post item about the resignation of Dennis C. Blair from the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) spoke volumes about the utter insanity of the modern American media landscape. In a month when Katie Couric redefined the “scoop” as an advance glimpse of celebrity idiot-spawn Suri Cruise, and investigative journalism according to muckracking icon 60 Minutes meant sappy profiles of Howard Stern and Bill Romanowski, it made all the sense in the world that the denouement of a spectacular tale of massive government waste and fraud would go completely unnoticed by virtually the entire journalism community.

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