William Quick tracks down the predictably scant coverage in The New York Times and The Washington Post of the three Armenian monks who escaped the militant Palestinian gunman still holed up in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Notes the DailyPundit:

For some odd reason, this isn’t being heavily reported at NYT, “The Paper of Record,” which buried a three sentence report in the fourteenth and fifteenth graf of this article, while WaPo mentions it in passing in the eighteenth graf of this story.

What ever happened to those glorious days of front page headline news about the brutal IDF attacking innocent Palestinians who were only seeking shelter inside the Church of the Nativity, or about the priests who stayed with them of their own free will? I guess the tale of these three escaped clerical hostages and their account of the brutality of their Palestinian terrorist captors is the wrong kind of stuff for headline news these days.

C’mon Bill. That’s a bit unfair, don’t you think? I mean, it’s not like either the Times or the Post knew in advance that freakin’ “Baretta” would be busted, right…?