For well over a year now, as far as I know, the "news" from the New York Times et al. has basically been about only one thing, namely Russia!Trump/Russia!Russia/Trump!Collusion!Russia/Tampering!Mueller!Indictments! etc, etc., etc. How many articles have you seen over the past year on that subject? Five thousand? Over and over, the Times has seized on the teensiest new leak to justify yet another big front page spread on this issue.

Then the Justice Department Inspector General's Report on the Hillary Clinton investigation came out on Thursday June 14, filled with damning information on FBI corruption and bias. On Friday morning, Mrs. MC -- who has a news feed overweighted (in my opinion) with progressive sources like CNN and the Washington Post -- says to me "I think it's wrong that the Trump administration is taking children away from their parents at the border." My reaction was, why is that a big story all of a sudden? Has anything about that actually changed in the last few days? Wasn't the Obama administration doing essentially the same thing, although maybe on a lesser scale?

And then, as the weekend came along, suddenly the one and only thing that the news was about had completely changed. Now it had become about Trump "snatching" children from their parents at the border. On Monday and Tuesday, the Congress held hearings on the IG Report, with IG Michael Horowitz testifying. IG Report? What IG Report?

Yesterday, I thought I would take a little tour through the Pravda print edition to see how the editors' view of what was important in the news may have shifted. Here it is:

And the IG Report, and Horowitz's testimony? Can we find that in here somewhere? Ah, yes, there is one modest-size piece on page A16, about one-quarter of the page, since updated and revised online under the headline "Senators Remain Split as They Question Justice Dept. Watchdog on F.B.I. Report." You get the gist -- it's just partisans trying to spin an ambiguous report with nothing much important in it. Nothing to see here!

And, was it just Pravda? Check out this graph from Media Matters of television minutes devoted at the cable news networks yesterday between 6 AM and 1 PM to the respective stories of border child separation and the IG Report: