There’s something that people who work in the news business call “the Friday night news dump.” It’s a situation that occurs when a source of news – say, a government agency, or a big business – has information that they’re not excited to make public, but was bound to come out eventually. So they release it late on a Friday afternoon. Why? Because more people out for dinner or to Happy Hour on Friday evening, so they aren’t watching TV news, while the next batch of newspapers on Saturday morning are the least read of the week. By the time Monday rolls around and folks start consuming media again, the breaking news has become “old news.” Unless it’s a three-day holiday weekend – that’s even worse! This President's Day weekend has brought one of the more outrageous cases of the Friday night news dump that I’ve seen in my lifetime – and it concerns one of the big issues we’ve been talking about here on this blog. In New Orleans, a federal judge has put the kibosh – for now – on the lawsuit that was the last, best chance to restore Louisiana’s wetlands. Over the last couple of years, I’ve ...
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