If it isn’t published it didn’t happen.
Via The Federalist:
In their front-page coverage of the story, mainstream media outlets gave readers no indication of the contents of a declassified memo released by the House Intelligence Committee on Friday.
The memo alleges the Federal Bureau of Intelligence and Department of Justice abused their power to obtain permission from a secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to spy on the Trump campaign. It asserts the FBI used an unverified opposition research dossier paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee to obtain permission to spy, but never disclosed certain information to the court that would have undermined its case, including who paid for the document and indications its author was an unreliable source.
The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and other mainstream outlets blocked these explosive allegations from their home pages Friday night, in some cases mischaracterizing the contents of the memo and downplaying its significance.
In its banner story, The Washington Post characterized the memo as “alleging missteps.” The memo alleges deliberate abuse of the system, not accidental missteps. In a nut graph next to that story, WaPo reiterates theories about what might happen to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as a result of the memo, with no real indication as to why he is implicated. Rosenstein signed warrant requests to the FISA court on the basis of allegations inside the dossier.
The New York Times banner coverage is a bit more informative, with the headline “GOP Releases Memo on Russian Inquiry,” followed by, “Alleges Abuses by FBI; Critics Call Claim Misleading.” But the key takeaway for readers from the memo itself seems deliberately opaque.
“The memo criticizes information used in an application for a warrant to wiretap Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser, but does not provide all the evidence used in the application,” the front page reads.