Priorities…

Lest not overlook the way our mainstream media is handing some current news stories this week.

We’ve all heard the soundbite from Don Imus, a.k.a. The Crypt Keeper. He called some members of the Rutgers women’s basketball team, a bunch of “nappy headed hos” and starting Monday, he’ll serve a two week suspension for the insensitive remark. MSNBC has also announced they’ll drop his syndicated radio show, which they run on TV early weekday mornings.

This took place a week ago and it’s still front page news, for some reason. So in your face and popular that Imus wasn’t suspended immediately. He has to endure the backlash all week and then when the story is tired, only THEN will he be suspended.

Why in the hell is this front page news and getting infinitely more coverage than say, the Duke lacrosse case? Charges were dropped against David Evans, Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty earlier today a mere 395 days after their ordeal began. The stripper in question had a story with more holes than Swiss cheese and this saga is now put to rest. I mean, outside the fact that three lives and reputations have been ruined.

Evans, Seligmann and Finnerty are white boys from privileged backgrounds and that has worked against them this past year. Many implied that the rich college boys took advantage and raped an African American woman. Turns out, they didn’t. It also turns out the stripper in question has a rap sheet and a rather shady past. As everyone tries to move forward from here, it gives us a little more perspective as to who the real ‘victims’ are.

What about another story swept under the rug even thought it deserved much more attention… LSU women’s basketball coach Pokey Chatman resigning after having a sexual relationship with a former player, rumored to have been a player on the team when this all went down.

Yup, that’s our mainstream media for you. Let’s focus on an off-color comment by a fossil of a radio announcer. Some old, decrepit man who was filling air time with insults – something Imus made his career by doing. Let’s be more offended by the phrase “nappy headed ho” – which sounds like nothing more than a bad rap lyric. That said, I’m not African American, so I won’t pretend to comprehend how someone of that race interpreted that comment.

Still, than the fact a coach had an inappropriate relationship with a player or the fact that three innocent NCAA athletes were accused of something they didn’t do and had their names dragged through the mud for over a year is receiving less news than some tongue in cheek comment? It’s moronic.

Color me curious, but what if Chatman was a man and had an inappropriate relationship with either a male or female player. Why am I led to believe the Imus story would pale in comparison if that were the case?

I could go a million and one more ways with this topic… even tying to the excessive media coverage the Miami/FIU brawl garnered, but I’ll let my readers come to their own conclusions. I believe you know where I’m coming from.

Just another rant as our national media makes me sick.

.:Canes305:.

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