Illegal-Entry Highway Deaths . . . Show Part Of Picture Of Damage Being Done By Unbalanced Media
By DEXTER DUGGAN
PHOENIX — On the same day that a veteran Arizona major television news anchor explained why she was leaving her job, at least 13 illegal immigrants left this earthly life in a highway collision more than a 230-mile drive west of here near California’s border with Mexico.
Both events on March 2 involved the condition of media reporting these days.
Although TV anchor Kari Lake didn’t go into details during a video about what displeased her, she plainly said that journalism had become unrecognizable from what it was when she first walked into a newsroom in 1992.
The Arizona Daily Independent quoted Lake on March 2, “I think in a way the nastiness toward me is meant to scare other journalists who are open-minded and considerate of all points of view to snap back into line or they, too, will be ‘canceled’ and their reputation attacked.”
An article at the state’s largest news platform, the leftist Arizona Republic, didn’t conceal its dislike for Lake while quoting her on March 2 as saying, “The media needs more balance in coverage and a wider range of viewpoints represented in every newsroom at every level and at each position. In the last few years I haven’t felt proud to be a member of the media. I’m sure there are other journalists out there who feel the same way.”
Later, she told national radio talk host Larry Elder on March 3, “It’s not a crime to have traditional values. It’s not a crime to love America.”
Meanwhile, at least 13 of the 25 people crammed into an SUV with most of its … Continue Reading