VITAMEDIAS
Kissinger kiss-up: Media not doing their job: The Times, for example, quickly opposed the choice President Bush announced rather cannily on Thanksgiving eve, when half the country was on the road and the other half in the kitchen. This week, the New York Times criticized Kissinger's refusal to give up his lucrative international consulting business or to reveal the identity of its clients, which are thought to include both Mideastern governments and U.S. corporations doing business with them.
What is conspicuously missing, however, are the analytic profiles and investigative news reports concerning a factual record that is almost perversely dissonant with the responsibilities now laid upon him.
Kissinger, after all, is a man whose entire record of public service is studded with attempts to suppress information about the conduct of government and to deceive the American people and their elected representatives.