Focus This Week On Media Performance, Charter Schools, ObamaCare
Mess, ‘Gay Rights’ Overemphasis And Pipeline Safety  My monthly
multi-topic visit with you starts with some comments on news
media performance—too much of which fails to answer obvious
questions and/or is tilted to the left.  On a recent day, I
found examples—too many examples—of this kind of media
performance in a single issue of The Omaha World-Herald and a
single KETV newscast.  A good many of the newspaper examples
could be blamed on sources other than The World-Herald, but not
so for the Channel 7 malperformance which could be blamed on
local staff, including a veteran news reader who said two
convicted murderers “will spend the rest of their lives behind
bars.”  I thought it was common knowledge that so-called “life
sentences” very often prove to be less than life sentences.  UNO
Has Two Campuses You See  The Channel 7 broadcast also spoke for
several minutes about a student housing fire “on the UNO
campus,”—not disclosing that it was not