Coverage of the Jena 6 Hearings by the White, Progressive Blogosphere

Back on the day of the Jena 6 March, Pam at Pam's House Blend lamented the White Bloggosphere being MIA on Jena 6.

Well, we were enlightened that one reason for this was that the top tier so-called "progressive" bloggers that Pam specifically mentioned are "in the beltway" bloggers who blog on beltway issues.

Oh that's it? Well, shame on me for my darn tong lashing.

Well certainly congress is in the beltway, so I know these blogs covered the October 16th hearing on the Jena 6 and hate crimes that took place with the House Judiciary Committee this week; because what's more beltway than congress?

Well let's run down that same list and see what good coverage we find this time:

Daily Kos , again nothing on the front page from the contributing writers, including Kos himself, though he had time to writer approximately 8 different post on the 16th alone.

Talkingpointsmemo.com, umm well, no commentary from them either; but at least their news headlines feed picked up an article by the associated press that ended up on their page by accident. They might want to look into that feed so that they won't have that mistake again. I don't think they intended to have that information on their.

As a matter of fact, a search of the site's search engine only brings up one article ever on Talkingpoinsmemo, from September 22, lambasting Presidential Candidate Fred Thompson for not knowing anything about the Jena 6. The hysterically ironic part about a Talkingpointsmemo writer taking Thompson to task about that on the Talkingpointsmemo site, is that; even if Thompson read Talkingpointsmemo.com every single day, he still would not know a thing about the Jena 6.

atrios.blogspot.com/ - not a word!

How bout TalkLeft, which Pam previously described as having had "positioned itself as the leading progressive blog about criminal justice issues "

*Ding* *Ding* *Ding* *Ding* *Ding* TalkLeft actually dropped it's readers a little note on the hearings and even minimally recognized what the real issue is.

So far we have all of a strapping 5 sentences from leading liberal white blog sites.