Bias Crimes

I know we don't need any more laws burdening our legal system but shouldn't the media be held accountable when their stories are so laden with their own political leanings...For instance columnist Jon Healy from the LA Times was set to appear on CBS Public Eye discussing his editorial view of the poor response to Katrina and an hour before the show went on the air, one of the producers asked him if he could sound more angry...Now I don't know about you but when this happens doesn't the show stop being a news show and start being reality TV? I just received a copy of Newsweek in the mail yesterday (my wife's subscription!) and there wasn't one positive piece of news about any of the people who are going down to help with Katrina...only pieces about how much the government let the people down in the wake of the storm. They wanted to point out how Americans are shocked that there is still poverty in the United States?!? All this shows me is how out of touch the media is...meaning it seems that they are the ones who are shocked that there is still poverty in America. It goes back to what everyone's Mom used to tell them..."If you can't say something positive, then don't say anything at all".

On a side note: If you hadn't planned on boycotting the NBA yet, perhaps you should reconsider. Where are the leagues values? There advertising alone should make you hate the game we all could love. But after all the brawls and negativity associated with professional basketball, they are supposedly trying to become more fan friendly which would be a good place to start. Instead they have a charity basketball event (which is a good thing) and at it Kayne West (sp.?) sings during a halftime show (a very bad thing) and you have to listen to political rhetoric from basketball players (an even worse thing) whose hardest classes in college was pottery & basket weaving?!? I am sorry but it is hard enough to listen to actors and politicians but I don't want to hear what basketball players think about federal policies when they couldn't even tell you who is the senator of the state that they live in...Charles Barkley said (paraphrasing), "this was a horrible thing especially since it affected black people"...First of all it didn't only affect black people and secondly why does it matter who it affected...Apparently we are all human beings unless you are caucasian. I think it's crazy that when a trailer park gets hit by a tornado and there is ample warning, the people are white trash but in the case of this hurricane...oh, it's not the same. Good luck to a league whose ticket prices keep going up, the talent keeps going down, the league keeps moving further and further away from the people who fill the seats and closer to the people who wear the jerseys.