The media quickly came up with a term for the apparently politically orchestrated George Washington Bridge traffic jam: “Bridgegate.” Now what catchy term do the media attach to the explosive new book castigating the incumbent wartime commander in chief? “Gatesgate”? Hardly.

Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is suspected of orchestrating, for political payback, a traffic jam on the GW Bridge. “Meet the Press” spent more than half of its most recent show — 28 minutes, not counting commercials — on Bridgegate, less than 11 minutes on former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ allegations, another 12 minutes reporting on women living in poverty and exactly zero seconds on the just-released jobs report.