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<br>I rarely bother with the Mercury though it's delivered every day, and its performance<br>this week with headlines milking the Oakland Shootings for every teardrop reminds <br>me why. That's a "Dog Bites Man", story, hardly news--and it's emotional pornography, <br>serving only a sick appetite for safe vicarious grief. It's too bad our reporters don't <br>have the guts to interview the victims of Obama's war crimes so his enablers can <br>recognize some of the pain for which they are responsible. <br><br>The lead story today--about deliberate efforts to inflict injuries in pro football--is<br>news, but its presentation is hardly journalistic. I can't remember ever before \<br>seeing a news article loaded with rhetorical questions:<br><br>"Is football not a form of hand-to-hand combat? Does it not purposefully test <br>toughness and push the limits of pain? Are actual body parts not sacrificed or<br>compromised?"<br><br>When I was coming up, I was taught that editorials on the front page are the sure<br>sign of a propaganda rag. The Mercury was once a fairly respectable newspaper.<br>Times sure have changed.<br><br><br> </div></body>
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