Round these parts, everyone is concerned about corporations coming in and drilling for gas.  Up and down the Delaware River all the way to the Catskills, regular people are organizing everywhere.  They're holding pancake breakfasts just to get the neighbors informed.  They're wondering why the media hasn't come to town.  Where are the journalists? 

Where are the journalists?  They're somewhere else talking about WikiLeaks.  Many journalists are rebuilding their careers but they want to know why the community -- the people -- aren't clamoring to learn more about the demise of freedom of speech as represented through Julian Assange.

Seems both "the people" and the "journalists" are allowing FOX News to tell the story.  Maybe it is because for each side, Julian Assange doesn't fit in.  He's a citizen but he propagates information.  He propagates information, but he's not a journalist.

Plus, corporate gas drilling hits close to home.  The film, Gasland, shows the direct effect of drilling on the water supply as hydrofracturing forces chemicals deep into the ground that can eventually leak into aquifers and drinking water.  

Perhaps journalists can come up with new ways to cover the stories about communities that don't conflict with advertising profits.  Maybe the people will support them.  As for Assange, it seems that we will be relying on the media overseas to cover that story.