Spain is facing a press controversy that Barcepundit says is akin to the Rovegate. READ THE DETAILS HERE but he makes a good point:
Once again we seem to see an instance where outrage is being limited only to those with whom one side disagrees. This scandal also involves some press leaks…a court….an order issued to a leading newspaper. Also, the biggest political controversies in the United States (if you exclude almost every issue Bill Frist has been involved in the past year) still seem to revolve around the Iraq war.
In Spain there is an ongoing controversy about the March 2004 terrorist bombings there and whether they were somehow aimed at ousting then-ruling Popular Party governmnent (which did fall in the elections shortly after the bombings, putting in place a Socialist Party government).
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.