Small Town Justice

It's interesting how much a small comment can mean a lot.

There has been a lot of coverage about Dick Cheney's shooting this last week. Most of it is over the top of a very minor incident. But then again I think most people with common sense know where the media is coming from.

ABC News is probably driving this story more than anything else. Their White House representative has been indignant and outraged at the fact that the story was not given to the press corp first instead of to the local news agencies that were on site.

The peak of this outrage was displayed on Wednesday night's ABC's Nightline episode. I have stopped watching Nightline since Ted left. It is virtually unwatchable now in its new format and uncovered bias. Somehow in my flipping channels during commercials I ran across the re-hashing of the incident that has taken the War on Terror off the front page.

It was the end of the story and the 'reporter' was commenting on how the local authorities had completed their investigation and decided that no charges would be brought against the vice president. Then she continued to report that it appears that "small town politics have played their part in all of this." Then she did the ambigous statement to cover herself for the editorial she just gave by saying "but then again, we may never know."

What was that? Is that reporting? What kind of a journalist throws a politically charged accusation like that, then says "but then again, we may never know".

Network news is in general pathetic. Even NBC's attempt at reaching out in the cable news world with MSNBC has proved to be a failure.

Terry Moran had to have slept with someone to have gotten the gig of running Nightline into the ground....but then again, we may never know.