Mike McConnell and Double Standards
Mike's show today had two guests. One was from Stonewall Cincinnati, and the other was from the Young American Foundation promoting a list of college course that he claimed were bad. Mike rode the person from Stonewall very tough and wasted the entire time discussing the charter issue, instead of the current news where Stonewall removed the boycott backers as leaders of the group. The guy from the YAF was brought on and he and make had fun going over his list of "bad" college course, only one Mike questioned being there. I was displease with Mike's uneven treatment of the two guests. The Stonewall person got the treatment one would expect from a talk radio host, the other man was not even asked the motives and purpose of the group he represented, and even why and how he formulated his list. I was so riled by this disparity, that I sent Mike an email:

Brian Griffin 09/13/2002 11:21 AM
To: midday@700wlw.com
Subject: About www.yaf.org

Mike,

That site is nothing but a right wing political action group. Why do you
not state on the air that this guy is from a right wing conservative group?
That would be reasonable, but is it just assumed that everyone who gets no
hard questions from the hosts on your station is a conservative? Mike, if
your station broadcast TV pictures it would just be FOX News.

Brian

His response was that it should have been obvious that this group was conservative and Stonewall was liberal, as well as being flippant with my comments. My point was that his station asks hard questions to liberals, and soft questions to conservatives, so I guess that is the only to know who is who. He is telling me that I am right, I have to assume. I wish he would not make his listeners assume. I wish he would be up front with the motives of his guests. He presented this guy as a person who completed a survey of college courses in a scientific and honest manner. Instead it was a group with an agenda. His information was nothing but an exercise in cherry picking.

Downtown alive for next two weekends
Downtown was hopping today. The line waiting for lunch was longer than usual from the convention in town. I hope this can make up for the mindless boycott.

FOP, Lemmie battle brewing
The FOP is not going to get much support for their Union cause. They can only count on the die-hard police backers, and even they will not expend much capital on this one. Here is where Fangman and his right wing political views lose him traditional union support. Lemmie is making the right choice, and the FOP is stuck with it.

Report on police not conclusive
City Manager Lemmie is still going to conduct an outside study of this "problem." This "study" will find nothing. This study will not compile evidence of wrongdoing. It looks at policy. The discipline polices are not the problem. The only possible problem is the manner in which those policies are administered. The initial report confirms no wide pattern exists, just that black officers either commit more or are cite for committing more policy infractions than non-black officers, by percentage. There will be no finding that blacks are being “mistreated.” I would bet the numbers are consistent with overall criminal infractions in the general population as well.

Bomb scare prompts evacuation
This story did NOT appear in the Cincinnati Enquirer. There were wire stories about two planes with "terrorist" scares on them, but the Enquirer failed to have a story about this Ohio incident. They could have skipped on picture of a flag for some news. Instead they are falling into the local TV news trap.

Outside Expert: Police Officer Killed Roger Owensby
This is the story that will be filling 1230 the Buzz's programming tomorrow. I do not know the facts of the Jorge case to know what this matters. I am sure many will be out looking for him to be retried. I do not know why this report was requested by the city. I assume as part of the civil case, and not criminal proceedings. I would guess that no additional criminal charges will be filed and/or Jorge will not be retried.

Lawsuit Dropped Against Cincinnati's Vice Mayor
Ok Mr. TV Reporter, why did they drop the lawsuit, or rather were any reasons given as to why the suit was being dropped? This suit was paper thin, and a bit of a set up by Ken Lawson, but it was made into a Federal case, literally. A civil RICO case, I did not even know that was possible. I guess Alicia Reese was not so brash when she was calling for Assistant City Solicitor Fagal's job on a platter. I wonder if 1230 the Buzz will bring this story to light; after all they had facilitated the near public conviction of her by their callers.