A reporter is murdered on his way to work because he is investigating Muslims. Little coverage.

A Danish newspaper prints cartoons of Mohammad, which most of the MSM refuse to show so their audience will know what all the fuss is about, because, they tell us, of fear of reprisal. Neither do they report on the loss of freedom those who drew the cartoons, or those who printed them have suffered because of it.

A man responsible for giving us the news out of Iraq tells us that he covered-up stories because he didn’t want to lose access. Access to what? Saddam’s propaganda.

Off the top of my head, that is just a few instances of journalistic cowardice. The list is long and growing.

Thankfully, not everyone in the profession is selling this country down the river. Thanks, Jules.

__Ayo knew Bailey’s reporting had angered people affiliated with the Black Muslim Bakery. “But they’re not above the board,” she said. “They (the Black Muslim Bakery members) don’t get a pass.”__

Since when does one get “membership” in a bakery? It seems almost like an acknowledgement on the part of the author(s) that there was something more than baking bread going on there all along.

The second issue is raised tangentially in Jules’ piece and commented on by Newsbusters and commenter OIBK, here. I don’t think the MSM is “flooding the zone” on this story, so to speak, because they don’t relate to Bailey at all. He did the type of shoe-leather hard work of cultivating sources and getting to know real people in the community that almost no one at the networks does anymore. They’ve gotten the message long ago that there are certain religions and practices one dare not offend if one wants to occupy the airwaves. Bailey is a reminder to them that they’re not really reporters but merely newsreaders. My two cents.

None of the broadcast networks are reporting this story because they know the invariable $%&@storm from groups that don’t want their activities broadcast – with investigations leading to their real intents and desires. Furthermore, these groups could turn against the broadcast networks by denying access and boycotting companies that advertise on the networks at best and threatening grievous bodily harm at worst.

The cable networks (even CNN to its credit) are reporting this extensively. They may fear backlash, but to them, this is a story that affects ALL journalists, editors, and other media interests: the very real danger of getting hurt or killed to get a story.