The Fox news fluke and increasing blogosphere coverage of Sibel Edmonds

Initially, I had some small hope that the Fox News coverage of the most recent London Sunday Times story on Sibel Edmonds might encourage other mainstream US media outlets to follow in their wake… so far that hasn’t panned out. Meanwhile, the blogosphere has been relatively quiet, judging by Technorati, at least. Now, granted, there is more blogosphere coverage of Sibel Edmonds than there was a month or so ago, but that’s only to be expected with two bombshell Sunday Times articles under our belts, right? Note the big spike two weeks ago when the first Sunday Times piece came out. Bloggers SHOULD be recognising by now, that spreading this story is going to fall on our shoulders. So, once again, I ask- are you showing up in the technorati results for Sibel Edmonds searches? If not, why not?

Once again, I don’t mean to deny the fact that this story IS starting to get more (well deserved) coverage by bloggers recently- some of them A listers such as Lew Rockwell, David Swanson, Dandelion Salad, MyDD, Crooks and Liars, etc. We just need to see more of it, in light of the fact that the US mainstream media (Fox reprint notwithstanding) have abdicated their responsibility on this story.

ETA: with Slashdot picking up a recent BoingBoing article on the Sibel Edmonds story, we may now have reached a crucial tipping point in the blogosphere. Let’s keep it up and also see if we can get a viral YouTube video thrown into the mix. If not this one, perhaps the next one.

Posts that contain Sibel Edmonds per day for the last 30 days.

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