Los Angeles Times Op-Ed: U.S. media have lost the will to dig deep

A changed news culture has let several important investigative stories slip through the cracks.

By Greg Palast
April 27, 2007

IN AN E-MAIL uncovered and released by the House Judiciary Committee last month, Tim Griffin, once Karl Rove’s right-hand man, gloated that “no [U.S.] national press picked up” a BBC Television story reporting that the Rove team had developed an elaborate scheme to challenge the votes of thousands of African Americans in the 2004 election.