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Friday, April 15, 2005

DRAMATIC BROADENING OBSERVED

A Texan oil dude has been charged over oil-for-food:

Dramatically broadening the scandal surrounding the United Nations Oil-for-Food program, federal authorities in New York today charged David B. Chalmers, a Houston oil trader, and his company, Bayoil, with making millions of dollars in illegal kickback payments to Iraq while trading oil under the program.

InstaPundit has a useful wrap-up, including this, from an anonymous reader:

Now that the MSM can write about an TEXAS based OIL company owned by an AMERICAN, it will be saturation bombing time for them. I work for an MSM company, and I can see the froth beginning to churn.

Indeedy. Reader Larry sent word this morning that Triple J’s 8am news ran an item on this exciting new oil-for-food angle:

No mention of the subject for weeks (or ever). All changes now that a US firm is named.

He’s right; suddenly the ABC can’t run enough oil-for-food stories. 

UPDATE. Hank Reardon in comments:

Convenient timing for the ABC to see the error of their ways and give this scandal some coverage. I only recently received a response from the ABC’s Denise Musto, Audience and Consumer Affairs Manager to confirm that my complaint of lack of coverage on this issue had been upheld in relation to 7:30 Report and Lateline.

UPDATE II. Brendan Loy notes:

The U.N. oil-for-food scandal gets the buried-on-Page-A22 treatment for months ... and then a Texas oilman is indicted, and suddenly it’s the top story in the New York Times. Sheesh.

As Brendan writes: “Welcome to the party, folks. This is actually one of the biggest scandals in world history ... glad to have you aboard.” The Sydney Morning Herald also expresses unusual interest.

Posted by Tim B. on 04/15/2005 at 01:37 AM
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