Tuesday, May 30, 2006

 

executions seem to be more important to the news media than to the general public...

ever watch larry brinton's word on the street commentary on nashville's nbc affiliate wsmv-tv?

while i'm still trying to wrap my mind around the angle of the hypotenuse from which larry came on this opinion piece - it's the equivalent of a video blog - he did say something very interesting in the process...

"...executions seem to be more important to the news media than to the general public..."

that sounds like the right angle to me - even if larry and i are coming from different hypotenuses on this one...consider the recent 2005 virginia gubernatorial campaign...

the winner, democrat tim kaine, a catholic, opposed the death penalty on religious/moral grounds (though he was very clear that as governor he would carry out all of the state of virginia's laws), and the loser, republican jerry kilgore, went out of his way to make his radical support of capital punishment a defining issue in the election - an election that in the end was not even close - virginia voters, roughly the equivalent of tennessee voters, said that the death penalty was a non-issue...

is there a lesson in that race for tennessee politicians???

we think so...check out larry's piece...

peace out - <3
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