While Gannon has been covered ad nauseum, and everybody is busy patting themselves on the back for the story, several issues have slipped below radar.
The right wing blogosphere got away with running off Eason Jordon because of his remarks on the killing of journalists in Iraq.
I'm not saying the progressive blogosphere could, or would have saved his job; not the issue. The issue is the targeting of journalists in Iraq, and the issue is allowing the right wing blogosphere to take charge of this issue and shush up someone who spoke out.
You had your Gannon, they had their Eason.
And, there are a host of environmental issues that get little mention here. An exception was yesterday's diary on the logging of Sequoias in California.
The Senate rolled over and played dead, with a couple of exceptions and approved Chertoff as Homeland Security Chief with barely a blip on the Dkos radar screen. I think his record on human rights merited attention in the blogoshpere:
Chertoff headed the Justice Department's criminal division when hundreds of foreigners were swept up on relatively minor charges and held for an average of 80 days.
Some detainees were denied their right to see an attorney, were not told of the charges against them, or were physically abused.
At the February 2 hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Chertoff defended the investigation strategy but conceded it "had not always been executed perfectly."
Remember, there is a bill that passed the house, HR 418 that would give unprecedented powers to the Homeland Security Chief.
Those are just two important issues that slipped through without much action here.
There were many repetitive diaries on Gannon. The very excellent "Open letter to Jeff Gannon" was an exception, as I am sure there were others.