[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10572]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       MEDIA IGNORES IRS SCANDAL

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Madam Speaker, the liberal national media 
continues to downplay the IRS scandal.
  Last week, the IRS claimed it lost 2 years of emails of former 
director Lois Lerner, which likely contained information about the 
agency's targeting of conservative organizations.
  One would think that this would be breaking news, but it took The 
Washington Post and The New York Times 4 days before they considered 
the missing emails newsworthy. This may be one reason why consumers are 
turning to social media for their news.
  What a dramatic shift from how these publications covered President 
Nixon's missing 18 minutes of audio tape. During Watergate, The Post 
and The Times' front pages and editorials almost daily criticized the 
Nixon administration's abuse of power.
  The liberal national media hasn't changed between Watergate and now. 
What has changed is the political party of the administration in power.

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