That Wiley Media
Topic: politics
MPT is televising a debate tonight between Senator Barbara Mikulski and the hapless Republican hoping to unseat her, State Senator E.J. Pipkin.

From the Sun:

Maryland voters will get their first chance to see the candidates' differences from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Maryland Public Television. Three reporters - Wiley Hall of the Associated Press, Anne Kramer of radio station WBAL-AM and MPT's Lou Davis - will question the candidates.

Now as far as I know, Lou Davis and Anne Kramer are your standard apolitical newsreader types. But Wiley Hall III is a far-left writer whose resume includes a stint as editor of the Afro-American and a column in the City Paper. You can read through Hall's City Paper columns here - try and find the one about how voucher supporters are bigots or how Nightline is a conservative mouthpiece.

I'm not really surprised at this kind of dishonesty from the local media anymore, but I can't figure out why they would go to the trouble of stacking the deck against E.J. Pipkin. Can't they let the poor bastard take his 20-point beating without being called a racist by Wiley friggin' Hall?

Marc