Art of press control

From the Crikey email alert;

An anonymous media watcher writes:

I am amazed there has been no reaction that I have traced to the Jeff Gannon story - have you noticed it in the Australian press? It has everything - sex, sleaze, hypocrisy unmasked, right wing gays, security breaches, etc, etc.

I am especially surprised at the lack of interest in the security aspects - a person with a false name was able to evade FBI vetting and get into the White House Press Corp with White House assistance – the same person who seems to be the missing link in the criminal exposure of a CIA agent - why is the Australian media so disinterested? Conspiracy theorists - start your engines!

CRIKEY: Indeed, we missed this one too - but it's a cracking yarn that the US media seems unwilling to explore.

This story is breaking much like the Plame outing story, very slowly. Blogs have been all over it like a monkey to a cup cake. The Australian media hasn't gone anywhere near it.

Instead we hear about Michael Jackson's trial. He is an extremely powerful man after all.... geopolitically speaking.