On December 22, 3 days before Christmas, the White House issued new rules to overhaul the 1976 National Forest Management Act, and allow managers of the nation's 155 national forests to approve logging, drilling and mining operations without conducting environmental impact statements (for more on this go here ). According to Media Matters for America, "while newspapers across the country covered the change extensively, the new rules, which are expected to take effect next week, were not mentioned on network evening news (ABC, CBS, and NBC) or on cable primetime news (CNN, MSNBC, and FOX News)."

As MMA also points out, if you really want to know what goes on in America, read the news on off-cycle weekends and holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Independence Day...). They just love to slip things in...

• Just before Thanksgiving 2004, the Pentagon released a study that concluded that "the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have created a shared anti-American cause among otherwise-divided Muslim extremists and raised the stature of the radicals in the eyes of ordinary Muslims."
• In 2003, the administration announced on Christmas Eve that they had opened up backcountry trails on federal land to state, county, and municipal governments.

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