MMMM # 151* Media Elitism and The Constible On Patrol

     What Alabama TV station had a fully marked vehicle stopped and given a ticket for windows tinted too darkly?

     It IS against the law...in fact it was 15 years ago that the legislature passed the law, so perhaps the officer was giving a 15th anniversary ticket?

     I wonder how many tickets of that nature have been given out in those fifteen years? And how many to brightly marked NEWS VEHICLES?

    I believe reporters should be treated exactly the same as everyone else...which is why I don't like seeing news vehicles parked illegally at the scene of routine news stories like The Alabama Statehouse. They never are ticketed.

     But windows tinted too dark? It is close to the end of the month, so perhaps the good officer was low on his quota? Or maybe he just didn't like a story that station had reported.



[PLUS: a Washington Post column calls out the media on it's failure to report the "rigging" of the 2012 elections by states (including Alabama)  that have passed laws that benefit the GOP.

"...the rank partisanship of these measures is discouraging the media from reporting plainly on what’s going on. Voter suppression so clearly benefits the Republicans that the media typically report this through a partisan lens, knowing that accounts making clear whom these laws disenfranchise would be labeled as biased by the right. But the media should not fear telling the truth or standing up for the rights of the poor or the young.")

[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a regular feature of this blog.]

[*this would have been MMMM #150, but I used that number for a special MMMM about the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War....just in case anyone is keeping track. And by the way, my 2000th post on this blog was yesterday. ]