text: And that, by and large, is where the media left the matter. Left largely unexamined was the information that had been covered up. What was it that the White House did not want us to know? And what was the pointless "pablum" that Christie Whitman refused to dignify with publication? Driven by the immediacy of the daily news cycle, TV and newspaper reporters asked the question, but did not answer it, falling back instead on the easy assertions of advocates: If the report was so damning that it had to be suppressed, it must have shown that human-induced global warming is certainly happening.