Despite the fact that the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal has received relatively little media attention, the story continues to roll on...slowly. This report in The New York Post might explain why we don’t yet know more:

Many U.N. employees fear reprisals from their bosses if they step forward with information on the Iraq oil-for-food scandal or report other allegations of corruption, according to a shocking internal survey released yesterday.

Strange...whenever private-sector scandals hit, they receive a full airing in the media. And when they do, the media’s party line is that businesses need more governmental oversight. Of course, the media itself—for all its distortions, biases, fabrications and outright lies—deserves no such oversight. Nor does the United Nations, an entity that is essentially accountable to nobody.

What can one make of this? Fraud is acceptable as long as it’s committed by the media or any organization favored by the media.

By failing to cover the biggest financial scam in the history of mankind with even one-tenth the vigor that it used to cover Enron, the media tells us volumes about its biases.