<<The NY Post was just repeating what the bloggers and tweeters were digging up. The MSM was busy buying Wieners story that he had been hacked and or set up. >>
1. A lot of stuff that's dug up by hackers and tweeters never makes it into the MSM or if it does get in, it lives and dies for a day. It's printed once, for form's sake, and allowed to "blow over." It was the Post's decision to keep this thing front-page day after day after day.
2. Bloggers and tweeters may have dug out the "penis photo" posts, but Post reporters and others kept the story front-page with junk stories that ought to have been squibs deep inside the paper, if not just non-stories - - stuff about Huda, the Wiener's wife, Huda's pregnancy, Huda's job, Wiener's apartment going on and off the market, getting sold, Wiener's new home, Wiener pleading with supporters for his job - - an avalanche of inconsequential bullshit, all front-page.
3. The MSM didn't "buy" Wiener's story about a set-up, they reported it. It sold papers and kept the story alive till the shit hit the fan, at which point they didn't need it any more and even Wiener gave it up.
4. Sex scandals are a sub-genre of political stories for the MSM. At the point where the scandal breaks or is too wide-spread to be ignored, exploitation sells papers like hotcakes and political objectives become pushed to the background in the rush to pump up the bottom line. At that point the politician, even a pro-Zionist hack like Wiener, becomes damaged goods, of no use to anyone any more and kind of gets thrown to the wolves without regard to all his past services to his paymasters. It's not personal, it's business. Again, if you want a real indication of the media's power in "electing" a pro-corporate, pro-war-machine legislature, you need to look at media access in the first instance, and the kind of fawning coverage they give to their picks, for example how an idiot like Cain is treated respectfully as if he really had something important to say.
<<As far as the unions go, their devils deal with politicians will likely be responsible for the bankruptcy of California and Illinois. >>
Yeah, right, and Proposition 13 has absolutely nothing to do with it.