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George Weber, right, stands with New York Mayor
Michael Bloomberg. Police found Weber dead in his
Brooklyn apartment Sunday morning, March 22, 2009.
He was 47. (AP Photo/ABC News Radio)
How do you write something critical about a man who was brutally beaten and stabbed to death, allegedly at the hands of an underage, "sadomasochistic," homosexual lover? If you equate sadomasochistic with "strange," you're not alone, depending upon your definition of "strange." But look, if the kid was somehow deranged, wasn't the reporter similarly dangerous? Was the reporter a child molester? And why aren't his colleagues in the press talking about that?
Don Imus is widely hailed as a recovering alcoholic/addict who continues to enjoy huge success on radio. Rush Limbaugh is a very wealthy icon for right-wing America. Jim Jenson's career fell apart, but he was always respected as a solid journalist. Three drug addicts who made millions after their illnesses were revealed. All was forgiven.
Plaxico Burris shoots himself, and ends up losing his job, and may yet go to jail. Micheal Vick is trying to get out of jail, for fighting dogs. --stop--
Let me say that again.
Michael Vick went to federal prison, for fighting dogs. --continue--
Alex Rodriguez and Barry Bonds are portrayed as the biggest cheats the world has even known. Their crimes, allegedly using performance-enhancing drugs (A-Rod admits it) to boost production.
Seems the media lives to rag on the missteps of the rest of the world, but not-so-much on itself.
"Elliot Spitzer used prostitutes." "Dwight Gooden is a drug addict." "Jesse Jackson fathered a child out of wedlock (and Bill Cosby, and Julius Irving.)" And on and on it goes. The names change, the industry is irrelevant. There's a good thesis paper out there for anyone that wants to challenge the belief that the media will pick on just about anyone, but itself.
The point is, when its the people who tell on everyone else doing the talking, we don't hear a lot about the social deviance of the press. But my experience is, there are addicts, gays, child molesters, wife beaters, child support deadbeats, stalkers, adulterers, alcoholics, embezzlers, forgers, credit and tax cheats and anything else you hear and see in the news about the rest of us, in newsrooms everywhere. It's just that the people who do the squealing don't talk about what's in their closets. I don't blame them for that. But I do blame them for pushing the public discourse in this country so low, that we have become a society of gossipers -- most of it, as classic gossip goes, is no where near accurate. It's the old "pot calling the kettle black" phenomenon.
As this country tries to heal from the last eight years, let's stop being a nation that consumes and then debates everyone else's problems. We can start by demanding that the information agents we look to for "news" stop being hypocritical tattle tales. Or at least judge themselves as they judge the rest of us. Am I happy George Weber was killed? Absolutely not. Am I troubled that he was reportedly having sex with a 16 year-old child, absolutely yes. But I am most troubled that most of the NYC press pool painted Mr. Weber as a smart, compassionate, hard working news veteran who loved his job, not a Megan's List- eligible child abuser.
How's it go? "He who is without sin... ?"
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