"Your beating is not news I say!"

Former CBS Evening News producer Richard Jefferson is suing the network over claims that he was being prevented from speaking publicly about a meeting that he received because he is gay. Mr. Jefferson was on holiday in St. Maarten last year with another network employee when the two were beaten severely by locals and the police refused to investigate. When CBS expressed no interest in covering the story of either the assault or the lack of a criminal investigation Mr. Jefferson took the story to rivals ABC and MSNBC. He claims to have been told by a senior network VP that he had to stop speaking about the incident because it was "controversial".

I wonder what Bill O'Reilly's posture will be on this. Recently he has been quite outspoken about the coverage given to the Iraq War by networks other than Faux News. I suspects he would think that this story should not be reported because it will overshadow all of the good things happening in St. Maarten and that in any case it would only encourage the homosexuals.