Grizzly headlines, huh. Murders do occur every day somewhere in the world but in this case it involves State Senator Creigh Deeds of Virginia and his son, Gus, a 24 year old college student from William & Mary. This story is a mini-big deal because two years ago Sr. Deeds ran for and lost his gubernatorial campaign. This story first came on the radio around 11 AM EDT. Then I started picking it up on the web sites from around the country at the same time and what did I hear and read? "No details available". The news media in this country are clueless. I look at the UK Daily Mail Online every three days. People, it's a foreign newspaper with reporters stationed in the US. At the same bewitching hour of 11 AM I read the entire report and had the entire scenario down pat. Deeds' son stabbed his dad numerous times then shot himself dead. End of story but not quite. It wasn't until 3PM that the all powerful US media got bits and pieces of details of the tragedy and finally admitted it was an attempted murder suicide. I guess they wanted to make sure. You know how our media doesn't like to jump to conclusions.
The liberal Shepard Smith from Fox News ("yes, Martha, they do have liberal anchors on Fox") went to an on sight reporter in Virginia who gave this description of young Mr. Deeds, "He was considered a handful". What is wrong with these people? Are they going to put That inscription on his tombstone? "Mrs. Deeds, how big a handful was Gus and could you compare him to George Zimmerman"?
How about making a visit to Wm & Mary and have a chat with his frat brothers. Mr. Reporter: "Yep, Ol' Gus(Deeds) was fun, great at parties but he was a real handful".
Once again, the American press has shown itself to be what it is---inept. As long as I brought up the subject of news why not make a favorite out of the UK attachment. It's much more fun, interesting and educational than the New York Times and it's free.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ushome/index.html
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