MSM 'til the day they die: Morning after Casey Anthony murder acquittal, NY Times gives column one to illegal aliens from Mexico -who AREN'T here!

Above, Wednesday morning's New York Times was a picture of a newspaper that couldn't help itself from engaging in the worst (dumbest) sort of faux high-minded editorial judgment.

Where we set our scene: the Panera Bread location in Hallandale Beach, south of The Duo condo towers, right next to the Diplomat Country Club.

(Yes, as in the great Diplomat LAC battle of last year, which we won.)

July 6, 2011 photos by South Beach Hoosier.

Mainstream Media 'til the day they die...

So am I the only person in the country that noticed that the morning after the Casey Anthony murder acquittal, the N.Y. Times gives column one over to a story about illegal aliens from Mexico -who AREN'T even HERE?

It's like the Times has a Black fraternity insignia burned into their shoulders like... -well, you know who you are out there- and can't see that their loyalty to the group over the larger society as a whole must have some logical limits.

But no...

Mainstream Media 'til the day they die...

Let this be a self-evident lesson to those of you who have scoffed in the past when well-known conservatives like Rush Limbaugh and others have tweaked the MSM's patronizing and self-absorbed missing-the-trees-for-the-forest/liberal nature by saying what the prospective headlines might be in the N.Y. Times following various catastrophes.

Something along the lines of, well, say,

"Species-killer asteroid crashes into North Atlantic creating deadly tsunamis; poor and minorities will be especially hard-hit say experts."

This is something that American conservatives have been saying with various variations since William Buckley's "Firing Line" TV show was a staple of PBS and one of the very few overtly conservative outlets in American media.

The N.Y. Times article in column one that I have referenced above has one title in print and another one online.

The print version that you see for yourself above reads:

Better Lives for Mexicans Cut Allure of Going North

Shifts in Jobs and Education Are Cited in Decline of Illegal Traffic to U.S.

Online, it's...

Changes in Mexico Slow Illegal Immigration to U.S.

By Damien Cave

July 6, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/06/world/americas/immigration.html

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In case you were wondering, yes, I AM going to be highlighting the Miami Herald's perfectly awful coverage of the Casey Anthony trial in Orlando and how poorly-served South Florida was served by the largest newspaper in the country's fourth largest state.

In particular, the Herald's very curious (questionable) choices of where to run the stories they deigned to run -when they ran any- and almost always without any photos of any kind.

Given the abysmal daily coverage thru the forty-something day trial, you'd almost think that

a.) Miami wasn't in the same state as Orlando, and that,

b.) the Herald's management just wished the Casey Anthony story would go away.

Hmm-m...

Yes, just more of what I have been complaining about in this space for years with regard to the self-evident and dramatic decline of Herald management and reporting in far-too-many areas.

That essay of mine will be here before you know it, and as I always remind you here, nothing quite says neglect like evidence, especially photographic proof of that neglect.

New York Times does their condescending ethnic drive-by "gotcha' thing in Crist-Rubio FL Senate race

re 3/30 NYT's Caucus blog: Crist Backer Uses Ethnic Terms About Rubio

New York State is the home of the most ethnically-divisive
politics in the country.
Candidates with not much to offer are continually
elected principally because there are large number
of voters there whose first qualification for someone
being elected to office is often that they are Black
or Hispanic or Jewish or Italian or Puerto Rican.
That's their choice. Period.

And we didn't sleepwalk thru the '80 and '90's like
certain of the Times reporters seem to have,
who seem to forget that Jews in the United States
were killed because they were Jews, in the wrong
place at the wrong time, not in Florida, Idaho,
Alabama or Arkansas, but in New York.
Multiple times.

I lived in the Chicago area in the mid-80's, when
Harold Washington was the first Black mayor
of Chicago, thanks in part to people I knew.
It was far-and-away the single-most racially-polarized
city in the United States, and the Chicago-area
news media, especially the TV Network O&O's,
were constantly looking for examples of New York
not quite being God's Little Acre, as if that,
somehow, would make what was happening in
Chicago less worse.

But in their online blogs New York Times reporters
are always conveniently forgetting this well-known
fact about New York, and are always looking to
play "gotcha" somewhere else with some remark
uttered by someone in a campaign that 99.99%
of the population have never heard of.

Again, as if that somehow would make what was
happening in New York less worse.

Sorry, but walking-up to uninformed voters and
saying, in essence, 'X just said this about your
candidate. What do you think?,' is NOT reporting.

But it is why why when Rush Limbaugh uses the
term drive-by media as a pejorative, he's 100% right
so often.

Worse, the New York Times writing this will now
give the reporters and columnists at the Miami Herald
and other Florida newspapers the excuse they need
to once again write about this rather than issues
-as if the majority of them really wanted to write
about issues instead of personalities, polls and
pithy anecdotes.

Actually, I was being sarcastic in that last sentence.
The vast majority of reporters anywhere have
never needed an excuse not to write about what
most citizens want to hear, as opposed to the
horse race aspect of a campaign they enjoy,

In case you forgot the facts, though,
here's a helpful reminder:

Number of Hispanic and Black governors and
U.S. Senators elected by voters where the
New York Times has their HQ: zero.
Dozens of states had elected a female U.S.
Senator before New York elected their first,
Hillary Clinton in 2000

Number of Women elected governor by voters
where the New York Times has their HQ: zero
Alabama had a female governor in the '60's,
Kentucky in the '80's.

Number of women elected mayor of New York
City by voters where the New York Times has
their HQ: zero.

Dear New York Times reporters: You might
want to work on that troubling ethnic and female
candidate aversion situation closer to home, dudes,
and while you're at it, your state legislature is
STILL THE most corrupt in the nation.

Why does The New York Times continue to have
so little practical effect on the state legislature
located closest to them?
Now THAT sounds like a story worth exploring.
Albany almost makes Tallahassee look clean.

Dear New York Times, you're welcome.
No charge for the consult.

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New York Times The Caucus
The Politics and Government Blog of The Times
Crist Backer Uses Ethnic Terms About Rubio
By Damien Cave
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/crist-backer-uses-ethnic-terms-about-rubio/

See also:
http://www.observer.com/politics

An Inaugural Memory of Our D.C. Embassy, The Florida House

Sign on southbound U.S.-1 at City of Aventura/Hallandale Beach line.

Lawton Chiles was a great and humble man blessed with a tireless work ethic and unquestioned integrity. Over the years, before and after I moved to the D.C. area from Miami, I was fortunate enough to talk to him from time to time, and thru observing his words and actions and principled stands, gain the benefit of his advice and wisdom. June 22, 2008 photo by South Beach Hoosier.

Meant to post this two weeks ago in advance of the Obama inauguration, but...

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Please take a look at this article in today's WSJ, updating the latest with the Chiles Family and

their opposition to the state's plan to raid/borrow/plunder that state trust fund, a story which I was tipped-off to today by the Walkin' Lawton blog, http://thehecoonwalks.blogspot.com, which I

subscribe to. http://thehecoonwalks.blogspot.com/2009/01/wall-street-journal-chiles-news.html

In the 15 years I lived in the Washington area, I spent a pretty fair amount of time around Senator and Mrs. Chiles, especially with Rhea Chiles and her personable personal assistant Lydia Harris at our wonderful 'embassy' in Washington, The Florida House, and its then-director, the gregarious Davis Graham, http://www.floridaembassy.com/.

I was there for hundreds of  hours over the years, and Mrs. Chiles, Lydia and Davis were always friendly and gracious, great ambassadors of our state in the nation's capital.

That includes one memorable night in particular, where for a Disney event, after we'd been witnesses to a sneak preview of some amazing upcoming Disney projects at Disney World that were held in one of the large Senate conference rooms, we returned to The Florida House for a first class reception afterwards.

It was there up on the beautiful second floor, surrounded by so many examples of Florida's history, art and culture that I was photographed in my favorite Brooks Brothers pinstripe suit, wearing a real Mickey Mouse blue and red striped rep tie given to us that night as a souvenir.

On one side of me was the one and only Mickey Mouse -also wearing his suit costume!- and a grinning Sen. Bob Graham on the other side, with his characteristic deep tan.

Best of all, the photo turned out great -a real bonus!

That's also the place where I watched my first presidential inaugural in January of 1989, and snapped some great photos from their second floor window, pointing towards the Capitol two

blocks away, capturing the helicopter flying President and Mrs. Reagan out to Andrews AFB, but not without it making a slow looping turn around the Capitol Hill area one last time, for old times sake.

Even though I'm quite certain that at least half of the people in the room watching the large TV with me up there never voted for President Reagan, it actually made everyone quite sad to see that little moment, knowing THAT was indeed the final exclamation point.  Including me.

I'll try to post those photos at some point in the future so that you can see why the scene of it seemed so poignant at the time.

To be perfectly honest, I'm really surprised this trust fund story has not gotten much more attention on local Miami TV to this point, saying that while acknowledging that one of these days, really,

I'm going to stop being surprised at the absurd lack of inherent curiosity at local Miami TV stations now, compared to when I was growing-up here.

That is, other than the few shining examples, like Channel 10's Michael Putney and Glenna Milberg, Channel 4's Stephen Stock and Jim DeFede, and a few others, who consistently recognize a compelling news story, and its possible consequences, LONG BEFORE anyone else

around here on local TV has gotten it into their thick head what's what.

But they can only do so much, you know?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123128816346259285.html

Wall Street Journal

January 6, 2009

Family Seeks to Block Use Of Fund to Close Florida Gap

By Corey Dade

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http://blogs.tampabay.com/buzz/2009/01/lawmakers-slash.html

St. Pete Times

The Buzz blog

January 15, 2009

Overpromising, underdelivering

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/us/14florida.html

New York Times

Budget Woes Expose Rifts Over Tobacco Money

By Damien Cave