The suicide car bomb attack in Qatar killed one British man and injured at least 12 others, and is probably the work of Al Qaeda or one of its ideological brethren.

But there isn’t a single word about the story on the front pages of The New York Times or The Washington Post.

UPDATE at 3/20/05 8:50:01 am:

Ironically, this edition of the Washington Post has a column by Dana Milbank slamming alternative media (read: blogs) for hiding disagreeable facts.

Partisans on the left and right have formed cottage industries devoted to discrediting what they dismissively call the “mainstream media” — the networks, daily newspapers and newsmagazines. Their goal: to steer readers and viewers toward ideologically driven outlets that will confirm their own views and protect them from disagreeable facts.