Sunshine Week needs some sunshine

Sunshine Week is supposed to be that time of year when MSM news organizations help citizens understand how they report on government. But so far, it’s been Cloudy and Overcast Week.

I wanted to learn more about how the New York Times managed to get into the sealed adoption records of the children of then Appellate Court Judge John Roberts and his wife, Jane Roberts, a private citizen.

I wanted to know why and how news organizations decide to do such things? Do they always tell the public when they do? How do MSM reporters persuade government officials to do such things, when it may be against the law to do them?

If government officials who may have leaked Valerie Palme’s name to the MSM should be punished, should we not also punish the people who leaked NSA security information?

I haven’t seen MSM casting sunshine on any of those questions this week.

Why not?

Just recently my local newspaper, The Raleigh News & Observer, reported government officials had been caught cheating when, in fact, they hadn’t.

It’s scary to think an MSM news organization could be so wrong on what was a simple story.

And just a few weeks back, almost all of MSM falsely reported the President had been told the levees could be breeched as a result of Katrina. The news organizations said they relied on a government document, a videotape. But there was nothing on the tape supporting their report.

How did MSM get that story so wrong?

And if MSM can’t get straight a simple matter of what was or was not said on a videotape, how can MSM be counted on to get right more complicated stories?

These are questions tens of millions of American’s would like to have answered during Sunshine Week.