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Newsworthy, Yes, They Say, Yet Denied Coverage

Photograph Source: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ – CC BY-SA 2.0

Editors of newspapers like to say that they cover the newsworthy events “without fear or favor.” Sure. But how can they cover events without the requisite curiosity, without deeply feeling for the public’s right to know, and without breaking through their “comfort zone”?

Maybe you can help explain the following examples of editors/reporters going AWOL and suggest how they could overcome their jaded inaction.

1. You’ll recall the criminal enterprise, led by felon Elon Musk, in 2025 called “The Department of Government Efficiency” or DOGE. Trickster Trump allowed Musk to rampage through one government agency after another. In fact, DOGE ushered in a regime that set records in government waste yet received insufficient media attention. By shuttering, dismantling, or closing programs and whole agencies serving people’s needs – health, safety, and economic support and protections – the Musk/Trump DOGE left crumbling agencies doing little or nothing with hamstrung staff.

There is sprawling corruption and waste inside the government, causing devastating and real waste by not preventing sicknesses and injuries, and forcing consumers deeper into personal debt for necessities such as healthcare, housing, food, and transportation.

Since DOGE began to wind down last summer, after MUSK exited as a hyper-wealthy fugitive from justice, there have been no thorough investigations by Congress nor by the Inspectors General, most of whom Trump illegally fired very early on in his dictatorial regime.

Not a day goes by without Trump unilaterally wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on his White House ballroom, on further larding runaway Pentagon spending. Wasteful and unnecessary military attacks, and the firing of government auditors, watchdogs, irreplaceable experienced managers, and first responders to disasters all contribute to freezing vital government services.

2. Why has the media not covered the legislative drive in New York’s state legislature to end the 45-year-long rebate of a tiny sales tax on stock transactions? Minimally estimated at $15 billion a year collected........

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