Pundits usually make their livings with heavy breathing on the latest hot story of the day, but Roland Martin gets news values right:
Sadly, few news people exhibit this any more.We should forget the nonsense about the competitive pressure to break the story.
The rules are simple: Either you have the facts or you don't. If you do, you run with the story. If you don't, you leave it alone.
This is the Texas ideal of justice: Shoot 'em all, let God sort 'em out.
No proportionality. No due process. No lawyers. Joe Horn makes sharia look good.
Not even give 'em a fair trial and then hang 'em.
Instead, "I'm going to kill them." Yet, despite announced premeditation, no indictment.
Shot 'em in the back. Your Honor, I was afraid they'd shoot flames out their asses at me. It was an open and shut case of self-defense.
Update (7/3): Time shows up to O.K. Corral a little late.
I normally don't watch political reporting on TV. It's so useless; why isn't there a news network for people who are engaged?
When the reporting line-up is Candy Crowley, Dana Bash, and John King, well, o.k. They're a poor bunch.
But now their analysts are David Gergen, Bay Buchanan, and Roland Martin. Seriously. They've completely amputated the left.
This is why CNN is useless to anyone with perspective.
