Remember the unrelenting coverage of the Enron scandal? Listening for similar media indignation over Oil-for-Food? You’re probably hearing nothing but crickets and faint coughs.

Dollar-wise, Oil-for-Food is a much bigger scandal, and that’s ignoring the fact that the U.N. and some of our supposed allies were essentially being paid by Saddam Hussein to oppose our foreign policy position on Iraq. You’d think something like that would be worth covering extensively, but then again, you’re not the editor of The New York Times.

At his G-Scobe website, Gregory Scoblete takes a look at the Times’s editorial outrage gap between Enron and Oil-for-Food. Illuminating, but not entirely surprising.