Writing in the liberal New Republic , T. A. Grant, acting on some smidgen of unease and faint stirrings of conscience about the non reporting of last week's Tucson horror by his/her fellow liberals, decides to explain How The Media Botched the Arizona Shooting. Good. However this explanation is an example of how the media botched the real story of the Arizona shooting. The problem begins immediately after Grant agonizes over the glaring (false) rush to judgment committed by fellow journalists causing him/her such embarrassment that s/he finally asks How did many fine, otherwise fair-minded journalists allow their judgment to become so clouded? Whoops! The problem shows up immediately: basic premise wrong so mostly everything flowing from it will be wrong. Maybe theses journalists were fine to Grant but they were not "otherwise fair-minded" and seemed to have very little judgment. Diversity be damned, the default, normal position for journalists at most of the dominant...(Read Full Post)