Monday, June 2, 2014

Lies, Damned Lies, & the News

I caught the beginning of The Diane Rehm Show this morning, immediately after the B.B.C. Newshour. ("Newshour" is not a word, incidentally—attn: the P.B.S. as well as the B.B.C.) In discussing the Memorial Day weekend murder spree in Southern California, Mrs. Rehm stressed repeatedly that the majority of the mentally ill do not commit violent crimes. This is true, & proper to declare. In both past episodes discussing "gun control" & this morning's references to the urgent "need" for gun-control legislation, Mrs. Rehm did not repeatedly stress that the majority of gun owners do not commit violent crimes, nor that the majority of guns are not used in violent crimes. Both of those things are true, & would be proper to declare. That Mrs. Rehm goes out of her way to make sure that the mentally ill are not slandered is to her credit, but refusing to afford the same courtesy-cum-protection to gun owners is precisely the ideology-driven bias Mrs. Rehm has long & vehemently denied having.

The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
Golem, "Train Across Ukraine" from Citizen Boris (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary: The last item on this morning's Newshour detailed a journey by train across Ukraine.

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