Ringside Seat: Lawmaker unfairly attacked after son’s arrest [View all]
Sometimes the holes in a news story are so big they go unnoticed.
That’s what happened last week with the reporting about a terrible and senseless crime in New Mexico.
Every story, including one television station’s account that dripped with venom, identified a suspect in a deadly drive-by shooting in Albuquerque as the 18-year-old son of state Rep. Stephanie Maez.
Not one news report mentioned the teenager’s father. It was as though Rep. Maez alone was solely responsible for her son Donovan’s existence.
Pregnancy and parenthood involve two people. Yet in this case, the focus of the news coverage was entirely on a young mother.
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