Are the media bashing another conservative pol?
Notwithstanding my poor performance as a blogger lately, I’ve had questions from readers about . . . .
No, let me rephrase in the interest of accuracy: Although I’ve slacked the blog for awhile, I’ve had comments, mostly accusations, from people pissed about media coverage of the maybe-divorce of Nevada’s first couple.
Why me? I’m no longer a full-time media professional, and I haven’t mentioned the situation in public or in private.
In fact, I don’t even have an opinion, beyond an abiding lack of surprise. Rumors about the Gibbons’ relationship have circulated for at least a decade. They’re common knowledge among reporters, but no one, as far as I know, has reported on them.
Which, just in passing, is another stick in the spokes of the “liberal media” theory, the notion that all the news outlets on the planet work together to undermine conservative politicians.
Gibbons is conservative to the point that the term “mindless ideologue” has been employed to describe him. Moreover, he’s been in public life a long time, and it’s fair to say his arrogance and messianic certainty have made him unpopular with some news people. As a columnist I loved him, because I could count on him to pop up every few months with a new dumber-than-dirt remark. It was Gibbons, remember, who said it was a shame Iraq war protesters couldn't be used as human shields, and who insisted that mercury in the environment wasn’t a health hazard. Most reporters, though, don’t get to comment on things like that. They just listen and fume.
Despite that, and despite persistent rumors, I haven’t read or heard speculation anywhere in the media about the Gibbons' alleged personal problems. Not until the bloggers got hold of it and the story went national did local news people touch it. Even then, most stories had an air of, “We have to mention this because everybody else did.”
In that case, then, what could the local folks, even those who’ve refrained from mentioning this situation for years, do? The Gov is entitled to a private life, but when his affairs (not meaning affairs, necessarily, though not necessarily not) . . . when his business becomes public, then his hometown newspaper and television station have an obligation to report it. Otherwise, when your cousin in Kansas calls and says, “Hey, how about your Governor now, GOP Boy?” all you could say is, “Huh?”
Gazette-Journal editor Beryl Love explains what went into the RGJ's decision to cover the story on the paper's Web site at www.rgj.com, and anybody with complaints about that should write to him, not me. I don't work there any more.
No, let me rephrase in the interest of accuracy: Although I’ve slacked the blog for awhile, I’ve had comments, mostly accusations, from people pissed about media coverage of the maybe-divorce of Nevada’s first couple.
Why me? I’m no longer a full-time media professional, and I haven’t mentioned the situation in public or in private.
In fact, I don’t even have an opinion, beyond an abiding lack of surprise. Rumors about the Gibbons’ relationship have circulated for at least a decade. They’re common knowledge among reporters, but no one, as far as I know, has reported on them.
Which, just in passing, is another stick in the spokes of the “liberal media” theory, the notion that all the news outlets on the planet work together to undermine conservative politicians.
Gibbons is conservative to the point that the term “mindless ideologue” has been employed to describe him. Moreover, he’s been in public life a long time, and it’s fair to say his arrogance and messianic certainty have made him unpopular with some news people. As a columnist I loved him, because I could count on him to pop up every few months with a new dumber-than-dirt remark. It was Gibbons, remember, who said it was a shame Iraq war protesters couldn't be used as human shields, and who insisted that mercury in the environment wasn’t a health hazard. Most reporters, though, don’t get to comment on things like that. They just listen and fume.
Despite that, and despite persistent rumors, I haven’t read or heard speculation anywhere in the media about the Gibbons' alleged personal problems. Not until the bloggers got hold of it and the story went national did local news people touch it. Even then, most stories had an air of, “We have to mention this because everybody else did.”
In that case, then, what could the local folks, even those who’ve refrained from mentioning this situation for years, do? The Gov is entitled to a private life, but when his affairs (not meaning affairs, necessarily, though not necessarily not) . . . when his business becomes public, then his hometown newspaper and television station have an obligation to report it. Otherwise, when your cousin in Kansas calls and says, “Hey, how about your Governor now, GOP Boy?” all you could say is, “Huh?”
Gazette-Journal editor Beryl Love explains what went into the RGJ's decision to cover the story on the paper's Web site at www.rgj.com, and anybody with complaints about that should write to him, not me. I don't work there any more.
posted by Cory | 3:31 PM
6 Comments:
When people worry about who is sleeping with whom more than who is going to make the right decisions that affect all of yes is the perfect answer to why Bush is in office. Too few care about the right things.
Hello, Cory. Missed you this past week.
As to Fibby the gov, who cares. It was a one day story and now forgotten by most.
What I find to be of more interest is Phil Galeoto who just left his staff. If memory serves me right Galeoto was a man under suspect when he suddenly left RPD. And because he left RPD all investigations were dropped because he was no longer a member of RPD.
Did Fibby the gov surround himself with people of suspect character or people just like himself?
NOMINEE: All-time best sentences.
"The Gov is entitled to a private life, but when his affairs (not meaning affairs, necessarily, though not necessarily not) . . . when his business becomes public, then his hometown newspaper and television station have an obligation to report it."
Very Blount-esque
Hi C, Remember the waitress mini scandle in Las Vegas. He was walking her to her car because she'd been drinking. I guess he felt he had the power to let her drive if he decided she wasn't that drunk.
Missed you Cory!
Dirty boy must have refills on his Viagra!
The story rates as "WHO CARES"! Certainly there are larger issues we should be paying attention to, the baseball stadium, the money we don't have to fund the 2 replacement fire stations, etc.
On with today's primary voting! Glad you are back on Cory.
LouiseS
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