Priority of the Estate

Andrew Cochran reports that some media organizations he’s familiar with have reassigned terrorism specialists to investigate Sarah Palin. Andrew sees this as part of a long-term decline of media interest in the threat of transnational terrorism and US counterterrorism policy, in favor of more marketable domestic political squabbling. Atlas on the other hand, takes it as a doubling down of media efforts to defame Palin through the investigation of nugatory gossip. Hmm. The two causalities can coexist quite agreeably, says me.