Kids these Days

You hear constantly about how kids basic skills, like reading and writing, aren't what they used to be. I guess the same could be said for the media. I reported yesterday that Bob Novak came clean about is role in Plamegate, noting that

I learned Valerie Plame's name from Joe Wilson's entry in Who's Who in America.

So far as I've seen, not one media piece cared to report that, rather they reported that, as Novak says, Rove confirmed Plame's status for him. He also noted that

Fitzgerald did not indict any of these sources [which] may indicate his conclusion that none of them violated the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.

That didn't make the media's cut either. So what we're left with is a sensationalist political conspriacy that the New York Times wishes was true, and a boring story of a journalist doing some basic grunt work. Can this thing just go away now? Doubtful, in fact I suspect we'll be stuck with more of Joe Wilson's grandstanding.