How pathetic is it that the Sunday shows (which we cats admit we don't watch) had — with the exception of Congressman Luis Guitierrez — all white guys yammering about immigration and family separation today?
And how come no women? We don't have kittens ourselves, but we're pretty damn sure that across America, moms' stomachs dropped when they first saw this photo of Honduras's most famous two-year-old.
The intrepid photographer who captured that image aside, journalism continues to fail us. The New York Times treated us this morning to an analysis of Trump supporters' stubborn loyalty, while The Washington Post covered a confab of right-wing women in Dallas (and in a particularly blinkered editorial, urged readers to let Trumpsters dine unmolested). We've kinda had it.
What the press is missing is that after last week, outrage has turned a corner. This Administration has proven over and over again that it is not only wrong on every issue from gun violence to climate change. It is blatantly antidemocratic — against due process and the rule of law. The mainstream media simply can't continue to insist that any kind of normalcy remains. It doesn't. Journalists who pretend otherwise are whistling past the graveyard.
So it means booking talking-head guests who don't look like the producers and directors behind the camera, and who maybe have thick accents or don't speak English at all. It means covering not just 2018's candidates but also the groundswell of women all over the country who have been organizing at the grass-roots to stop these monstrous Republicans in their tracks. It means interviewing voters like us about our anger and fear that the country is slipping away. Because it is.
And it means stop with the false equivalencies. But that's a whole 'nuther post — or maybe two or three. We cats don't want to get too riled before our evening naps. So we'll just HISS.
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