Mark Steyn on the Freeman story:

As far as I can tell, the only papers in America to so much as mention the Freeman story were the Wall Street Journal, Investors’ Business Daily, the Washington Times, the New York Post, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Augusta Chronicle, and the Press Enterprise of Riverside, California.

But if you rely for your news on the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Detroit News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Miami Herald, or the Minneapolis Star-Tribune — just to name a random selection of American dailies currently sliding off the cliff — the end of the story will be the first time you’ve heard of it.

Paging Cognito.