Are you sleeping on The Good Wife?

The television drama The Good Wife airs tonight on CBS at 10pm and it is, in my opinion, the only truly good drama on network TV.

The show has an amazingly diverse cast including Anika Noni Rose, Archie Panjabi, Michael Ealy, Joe Morton, Sonequa Martin and Michael Boatman. And the show features very smart storylines. Check it out and let me know if you agree.

Archie Punjabi

Michael Ealy

Anika Noni Rose

Marshall Mathers attacked because he's White?

Rapper/ lyricist Marshall Mathers known professionally as Eminem was interviewed on the CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes this past Sunday. During the interview journalist Anderson Cooper asked the rapper about his misogynist and homophobic lyrics and the media controversies surrounding the lyrics. Eminem's response was,“I felt like I was being singled out, and I felt like, is it the color of my skin?”

Eminem then went on to say, “There’s certain rappers that do and say the same things that I’m saying, and I don’t see no one saying anything about that.”

There's something to what Eminem says. The mainstream media has and continues to embrace rappers like 50 cent and Jay z despite their blatantly misogynistic and homophobic lyrics. And although the mainstream media mostly treats both 50 and Jay like idiot savants they continue to exult them. Jay Z was recently on the cover of Forbes magazine for instance.

But the mainstream media has never taken 50 nor Jay z to task for their hate lyrics the way Eminem was. Could it be that 50 and Jay z are referring or it's assumed they are referring to Black women and it's assumed that Eminem is referring to White women?

Yep.

So while it's perfectly okay, in the opinion of the mainstream media, for 50 and Jay to disparage Black women they were not going to sit by and let Eminem do the same to White women. We all know that White women are historically the most protected group in America while Black women are the least. Then is it any wonder that there was a media dust-up over Eminem's perceived attack on White womanhood while Black rapper's attacks on Black women were just seen as normal?

I think Eminem was right. I do think he was attacked by the mainstream media because of Whiteness but not because of his. He was attacked because his misogyny was aimed at White women. And that is not acceptable in America.

Eminem should have known better. If he had attacked Black women the mainstream media wouldn't have said a single word about it.

Journalist and CBS News correspondent Harold Dow {September 28, 1947 – August 21, 2010}

Veteran CBS New reporter Harold Dow died this past Saturday. He was 62. According to CBS News Mr. Dow died of an asthma attack. He left a wife and three kids and worked for CBS for over 40 years. I really enjoyed his work on the CBS newsmagazine 48 Hours. I'll definitely miss his reports.

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WTF Files: Is new ketchup packaging really news?

I was scanning the network evening news yesterday and seeing the usual fluff stories toward the end of the broadcast when I was shocked to see both NBC and CBS actually devote time to new ketchup packaging from Heinz. That's right soon the old squeeze packages will be gone and a new way to enjoy your ketchup will be at your local fast food joint. Apparently the "breakthrough" is that you can either sqeeze the package to get your ketchup or you can open it to dip your fries. Wow.

But is this really news? I mean with all that's going on in the world this makes the editorial cut? No wonder network news ratings are at all-time lows.

Murder and mayhem takes second billing to politics

Murder suspect Christopher Speight (AP photo)

This country is so desensitized to mass murder that the story about a man who Tuesday killed 8 people in Virginia wasn't even the lead story on any of the television networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) evening news broadcasts last night. All three led with the Massachusetts Senate race upset. Maybe there is a minimum number of 10 people being killed before it rates being the lead story?

Looting? Really?

The media is so racist that they don't even see the obvious contradiction in their reporting. On the one hand they are reporting that food and other needed supplies are not getting through to most of the Haitian people. And then in the next breath they accuse the Haitian people of looting.

So, if they are starving and lack even basic things like clothing what exactly are they supposed to do? Are they supposed to just sit and starve? Seems to me the Haitian people are doing what they have always done and that is survive.

The media has not learned a single lesson from their racist coverage of Hurricane Katrina where Whites who took from stores after the hurricane where seen as people trying to survive and Blacks seen as looters.

And shame on CBS reporter Byron Pitts (above) for going along with the looting narrative. I suppose holding on to that once a month appearance as a 60 Minutes correspondent is enough to make him say whatever they want him to say.