Mainstream media outlets have a political bias, but they have other biases too: a case in point
Many of the prostitutes getting banged by straight men in Houston are as young as 13, the Houston Chronicle reports. "Houston," says a local police captain, "is the sex capital of the United States, according to the girls on the street." In fact, the problem of female juvenile prostitution in Houston is so pervasive as to have drawn the attention of the FBI. That is not a flattering development for my city.
The story, which ran today, is buried deep in the paper's metropolitan section. (Click the link and see if you can find it.) Except for those who scour the Chronicle or read this blog, nobody is ever going to see it.
I wonder: had the Chronicle learned that gay men here were boning 13-year-old male prostitutes, would that story have ran in the paper's basement, or might it have been featured more prominently -- perhaps on the top fold of the front page, under a banner headline?
As the blogosphere has demonstrated lately, more than once and in spectacular fashion, America's legacy media suffer from a left-leaning political bias. But they suffer from other sorts of bias, too.
(When you fatigue of searching at the link above, here's a direct link to the story.)