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Sunday, January 12, 2014

Honoring the Saints


Belogradshick, Bulgaria - photo by JoAnn Sturman


Scott Sturman

Having never witnessed a progressive cause it could not support, the Fresno Bee is a good example of not only how the news is reported but what is reported and where it is displayed in the newspaper.  When check out time arrives, we ordinaries are remembered with a few words in the obituary section, tucked away in a cranny well back from the front page.  There is an equality in death and in the obit section; individual articles and pictures may vary in size, but a eulogy is a eulogy.  Does it really make a difference who has the biggest grave stone or mausoleum?  Politicians and the rich and famous are notable exceptions, but what is the Bee’s infatuation with the deaths of personal injury and criminal defense attorneys? 

When the Grim Reaper visits, few question front page publicity for a judge or legal scholar, but why the same treatment for professional litigators who sue anyone anytime, and whose phone numbers can be found in the back pocket of every dead beat in the community?  It’s not due to the public’s respect for the profession.  Just as nurses and firemen consistently rate as the most respected professions, the legal profession doesn’t fare so well with personal injury and criminal defense attorneys hovering at the lowest strata.

Perhaps even Joe the Plumber sees through the victims’ rights and reverence for the Constitution arguments and understands this stagecraft increases the cost of all products, services, and health care and is responsible for the explosion of regulations and rules.  Trial attorneys are bright people and realize tort reform, loser pays, and the broken jury system pays the bills, and the Bee clearly stands in their corner.  


   Belogradshick - photo by JoAnn Sturman

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