ABC World News Tonight
ran a story about the Christian right attacks on Sponge Bob. The "issue" they focused on was a tolerance video that was sent to 60,000 schools. But rather than asking the question of why Dobson's group is opposed to tolerance of homosexuality (or even bringing up the fact that they are), the folks at ABC simply stated the video was controversial without exploring what exactly the controversy was about.
It's this kind of nonsense which has frustrated so many of us who want a news media that reports news. I don't mind ABC running the Sponge Bob non-story. But I do mind when they fail to explore even the most basic issue at hand. The fact is that conservative groups are opposed to this video because they don't want acceptance of homosexuality. Rather than address this issue, they just play a clip of a conservative claiming he doesn't have a problem with the video so much as something minor on the website.
Wake up media. It's time to report the story, not tiptoe around it.