Newsbusters.org Blinds Themselves
In an article by Newsbusters.org on the disparity in coverage between Mel Gibson’s anti-Jew statements (shitloads of) and Michael Richards’ anti-black and anti-Jew statements (lots less coverage of), they decide to blame an anti-Christian bias of the L.A. Times.
Why the disparity is coverage? It seems pretty clear that the Times saw that they could use Mel Gibson’s episode to further a personal attack against Gibson. They openly sought to connect Mel’s tirade to his Passion of the Christ film. They used the episode to baselessly tar the Christian faith that Gibson openly professes. (See this post.) In doing this, the Times advanced the anti-Catholic, anti-Christian, and anti-conservative tone that pervades its paper. (We’ve posted about this in a number of places, including here and here.) The Times cannot advance any such agenda with Michael Richards, so one could readily conclude that the paper’s attitude is, “Why bother? Why make a Hollywood star look worse than he has to?”
Um… it couldn’t be because Mel Gibson is a huge star and a Hollywood mover-and-shaker, and Michael Richards is basically a D-list actor at best, with his only real claim to fame being his spot on Seinfeld, a show which ended years ago… noooo, it couldn’t be THAT… could it?
