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Jewish World Review Feb. 16, 2006 / 18 Shevat, 5766 I blame Carl Woodward or Bob Bernstein, you know, those Deep Throat guys By Marianne M. Jennings http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Little did Justice Scalia know that he got off easy with severe verbal abuse following his weekend of duck hunting with the Veep. In 2003, when the Cheney energy policy case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Anton and Cheney shared a jet and a duck pond. The justified conflicts of interest charges found Scalia in a recusal battle with the Sierra Club and Judicial Watch. Cheney should have dropped hunting then. Nothing good ever comes from policy wonks socializing whilst pursuing game birds. Mr. Cheney, despite my better judgment, went full barrel into a Texas quail hunt. The accidental shooting of Mr. Whittington has the mainstream media unraveling - not that there is much difference between a raveled and unraveled mainstream media. I blame Carl Woodward or Bob Bernstein or whatever the names of Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford in "All the President's Men" were. Their footnote contribution in history always finds me struggling with their first names, identity, which one was the scallywag married to Nora Ephron who ended up as Jack Nicholson in "Heartburn," and how come we never hear from Bernstein, only Woodward. Or is it the other way around? The mainstream media see Watergate/Deep Throat as journalism's role model. Two Washington Post reporters whose political views followed the "Nixon is Beelzebub driving an SUV" party line got lucky with shoddy reporting and a disgruntled government employee. The two critical elements in the Watergate journalism that are refining, but unnoticed by today's media, are: (1) there was a story there; (2) discernment distinguishes wheat from chaff. Chasing chaff without these parameters means you will pretty much be shooting blind. Forgive the duck/quail hunting pun. The Veep's waiting for medical stability in his buddy Whittington before notifying the White House Press Corps may not quite be an impeachable offense. Check with Monsieur Kerry who has been rumbling and bumbling about in that field. However, that discernment was not evident as I watched the Monday morning White House press briefing. For the first five minutes I believed, treadmill noise being what it is, that CNN was playing a Saturday Night Live skit. They had found deep gullet! Here were frothing maniacs, convinced that a quail hunt gone tragic was a constitutional crisis that could serve the dual purpose of ousting Bush as it catapulted their careers to that of Woodward idiot savant. They too would land interviews with ego maniacs and mold them into tomes/doorstops. Oh, if only they'd had this kind of doggedness on Chappaquiddick! Let's recap on media discernment. Since the Abramoff indictment, the media have been laboring mightily to connect the dots to Bush. Ah ha! They found a picture with Bush in the same room as Abramoff. There are photos of me with students who are now ex-cons, but I wasn't in on their check-kiting or credit card scams. They acted alone and in spite of my profound insight that jail time is tough to mask on a resume. Then there's the ongoing media story on Mr. Bush "spying on U.S. citizens," yet another constitutional crisis. The public has given its ho-hum on this media hissy fit because as Mr. Bush has noted, "If you're talking to al Qaeda, I wanna know about it." They want to know about it, they want their president to know about it, and they'd be pleasantly surprised if someone in the CIA were aware of it. The problem with the mainstream media is that they lack the collective wisdom of the red states. Those in the red states know the difference between stupidity and rights. They know that fault cannot always be assigned. They look at the weeping, wailing, and gnashing of media teeth on how Mr. Bush's ties to Halliburton caused Hurricane Katrina and realize that the press may not be parring the hole on insight, intelligence, or analysis. The indignation over the release of information on the Veep's quail hunting accident is something beyond the usual and well documented media bias. The mainstream media have become unhinged. So great is their dislike of Mr. Bush and so strong their desire to have a Watergate office-removal scandal that they cannot distinguish between relevant and irrelevant, material and immaterial. Blinding rage is destructive. Today's mainstream media are like the crazed neighbors in "The Burbs." Too much time on their hands has them uncovering the innocuous and turning it into the diabolical. They are Andy Farmer in "Funny Farm." His obsession with the mailman finds a normal sports writer lying in wait and dressed in camouflage as he prepares to push a boulder down onto his unsuspecting target. The operative word there is "unsuspecting." The media target folks who are unaware they had a foul. The foul is a media-inspired and perpetuated one in their quest to become Woodward and Bernstein or Bernstein and Woodward. The mainstream media have become what Muzak is to department store employees. It's is continuous and annoying, but you block it out. It no longer affects you because it's so mundane, continuous, and irrelevant to your work. Discernment is the greater part of journalism. Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in in the media and Washington consider "must-reading". Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here. JWR contributor Marianne M. Jennings is a professor of legal and ethical studies at Arizona State University. Send your comments by clicking here. Marianne M. 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