450 Reminders to the Liberal Media

Found this post by Andrew Roth, at Socialsecuritychoice.org, through Townhall.com (emphasis added):

Last week, the Cato Institute issued a new advertisement listing 450 economists, including 5 Nobel laureates, from across the country who have publicly endorsed personal accounts for Social Security. This may be the first time you’ve heard about this because the Washington Post and the New York Times haven’t reported it. Neither has USA Today or the LA Times. According to a spokesman at Cato, it hasn’t been reported on any of the major TV networks, either. No one is reporting this story.

All of this, of course, is completely unconscionable.

Would it be newsworthy if 450 climatologists signed a joint petition saying that the ozone layer was being depleted? Or, to stay on point, would it be newsworthy if 450 economists jointly agreed that President Bush was WRONG to endorse personal accounts? Would the liberal media report it then? Of course they would. They would report the story even if 450 Hollywood actors agreed that personal accounts were wrong, and they aren’t even experts.

But when 450 economists — people whose expertise we rely on when it comes to fiscal matters like Social Security — collectively agree that personal accounts are the way to go, the liberal media turns into a pack of church mice.

Roth suggests we not let this go unnoticed. I'm with him.