No follow up. No further ongoing investigation. No laying open the corrupt CDC.
Here's another Post story -- October 15, 2017, "The Drug Industry's Triumph Over the DEA": "In April 2016, at the height of the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history, Congress effectively stripped the Drug Enforcement Administration of its most potent weapon against large drug companies suspected of spilling [trafficking] prescription [opioid] narcotics onto the nation's streets."
This piece is a blockbuster. It indicts virtually every member of Congress, and Obama, for passing a law hamstringing enforcement in the fight against the biggest opioid traffickers, pharmaceutical companies. But again, no ongoing digging. No pressure on members of Congress to repeal the 2016 law they passed, a law which keeps the DEA from busting Pharma executives and freezing illegal opioid shipments.
Here is where the Post could go with that story (but won't) in an ongoing way:
"So, Senator, why haven't you introduced a new bill to cancel the damaging one you helped pass in 2016? In your home state, the latest reports show there are at least 100,000 opioid addicts, 800 of whom have died. Don't you want to let the DEA do its job? What are you waiting for?"
"This is outrageous. You're accusing me of -- "
"We've conducted a poll in your state. Your constituents want to know what you're doing. So tell them..."
"I'm very active."
"How? Exactly how are you active? Yesterday, we interviewed the mayor of your home town. He's a Democrat like you. He says you've done nothing to stem the tide. We've put together a list of pharmaceutical money you've taken over the past 10 years..."
This is why the Times and the Post and other similar mainstream outlets are fake.
Outrageously fake.
They have the resources and the reporters, but they don't follow up on the most crucial stories they cover.
They refuse. They "move on."
If they'll comment at all on this glaring dereliction of duty, it's: "Well, we already covered that." "It's old news." "Our readers aren't interested in that anymore." "Mounting an ongoing investigation would cross the line into making the news instead of reporting on it." Etc., etc.
All lies.
Mr. Sulzberger, who was handed the job publishing the NY Times by his family, should stop worrying about the Trump effect and just do journalism.
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