Herman Cain ended his campaign for president Saturday. I attended the speech he delivered announcing his exit, and heard the crowd roar loudest when he denounced the news media. The news media is a convenient object of scorn. It’s easy to clobber reporters, whose jobs are to look for and tell interesting real-life stories. Frequently, [...]
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3 Dec
Sick
You’re now seeing insane jealousy, the greenest, ugliest and sickest sort imaginable. There was no chance in hell Susan Richardson would talk to any reporter. As a political wife recently divorced from one of Georgia’s most media-unfriendly politicians, Mrs. Richardson should have retained her ex-husband’s stonewalling nature. Her ex-, only weeks earlier, had publicly revealed [...]
19 Mar
Shading the truth
In 2003, Gwinnett County prosecutors tried to send a 16 year old boy to prison for life for killing a child he was babysitting. The trial got lots of media attention. Prosecutors claimed the victim died from Shaken Baby Syndrome. But defense attorneys had a different story: The baby had died from a brain hemorrhage [...]
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