Knockdown

 
In yesterday's report I noted the strange lack of media coverage of the motorcycle accident involving and injuring California's actor-governor, Arnold Schwartzenegger and his young son, and today NBC national news tells us he was driving without a license.
 
This brings us to two obvious points, equal justice under the law and the malfunctioning, kiss-ass status of American journalism relative to political big shots.
 
There is here a total absence of equal justice because no charges will be filed against Schwartzenegger; but if you or I had done the same thing, driving without a license, causing damage to another vehicle, causing injury to a minor child, we would be up to our necks in trouble with the law.
 
Further, if this were Schwartzenegger the actor and not Schwartzenegger the governor he would have been cited and the story would be all over the news.
 
Personally, I think there is still more to this story, this classic case of media clampdown and governmental cover-up.  If I were a free journalist allowed to be working for a California newspaper I would be on this story like Virgil on Republican American Fascism.
 
I would like to know, for example, if there was any alcohol in Schwartzenegger's system, or if his system was even tested; and I would like to know whose car Schwartzenegger's motorcycle struck, and if that person was really at fault as the news media has constantly implied, and if that person was injured, and if charges had been filed against that person, and if any damages to that person's health and car are Schwartzenegger's financial responsibility.
 
I would also like to know if Shwartzenegger had insurance, which is a state law in California.
 
Of course, there is no such thing as equal justice in the United States of America, blacks are judged worse that whites, poor are judged worse than rich, and I am judged worse than Charles Manson; and thousands upon thousands of Californians have been charged with and have suffered greatly for the crime Shwartzenegger has committed but will not be charged with.
 
I opened yesterday's report with:  "Sometimes no news means there is news that is being held back." 
 
This is what the phrase "nose for news" is all about; sensing stories like this is the job and the duty of the newsperson; and it is a job and a duty the newsperson voluntarily takes on when entering the world's second-oldest profession; and this is a classic example of every reporter in California having a code in da node at the same time.
 
By the way, I was kicked out of journalism for wanting to cover a news story involving some 30,000 people the Los Angeles Times wanted to black out.
 
So, unless bigger news breaks, the title of tomorrow's report, as announced yesterday, will be "Drag-Out".