HARD LESSONS FROM THE FOLEY CASE

"I'm not interested in media interviews," says the Stop Sex Predators blogger.

"Thank you for your interest, but if you were doing your job to begin with, Mark Foley would have been exposed a long time ago. Instead of wanting to do a story about this blog, how about covering the fact that the media sat on this story for over a year. You're as bad as the Congressional Leadership that covered for Foley."

This is what the site's owner responded to CNNer Peter Hamby's inquiry.

The Poynter Institute web site has an extensive recollection of how the story was known but never reported, until the Stop Sex Predator blog posted some of the Foley´s messages to his pages, and then Brian Ross and the Investigative Team of ABC News broke the news: Sixteen-Year-Old Who Worked as Capitol Hill Page Concerned About E-mail Exchange with Congressman.

Well, the media is now trying to confirm that other politicians knew about the case, but we are not saying too much about what we, the media, knew.

Traditional media scooped again by a little blog.

A Republican Representative, gay, pedophile, that was sponsoring legislation agains sex offenders... and the press was sleeping.

What a shame!