(REAL TIMES MEDIA)—Several weeks ago Ed Schultz, MSNBC and the left’s answer to Rush Limbaugh, made an interesting suggestion that was probably a throwaway line in his early show monologue. He said there should be a “poor people’s news."

Acknowledging that he, along with the Keith Olbermans, Rachel Maddows and Bill O’Reillys of the world are incredibly well paid and comfortable, that inevitably skews what they’re going to cover and focus on in the news. I mean think about it, (13 percent) of the U.S. population is considered poor, that’s a pretty big number and it’s growing every minute when you consider how lousy the economy is going. How would coverage of health care be different if the voiceless had a voice, how would crime, job losses or even more abstract, the upcoming mid-term elections look if we actually took the feelings thoughts and attitudes of the poor into news coverage? I have a pretty good idea, and I think it’d change the way we cover news forever.

(NNPA)—Time has passed since the Super Bowl and the glorious victory of the New Orleans Saints, but I find that I keep coming back to that game, and not for the reasons that you might think. The Indianapolis Colts were supposed to win that game. They are an outstanding team with an outstanding quarterback and head coach. Everyone knew that it would be uphill for the Saints.

But the Saints won. And in many respects they won through an interesting combination of incredible team work, leadership and audacity. Although Indianapolis took the lead in the first quarter, it was apparent by the end of the second quarter that something was changing. And then it happened. An on-side kick which took everyone—including but not limited to the Colts—by complete surprise. It is one thing to use such a kick in the fourth quarter, but in the third? After half-time?

(NNPA)—Most Americans over 45 years old remember the movie “Tarzan, King of the Apes.” For those younger than 45, “Tarzan,” the movie, was set in the jungles of Africa and falsely depicted natives as primitive and backward. That is, until baby Tarzan is raised by the natives and taught their social mores and cultural rituals.

As Tarzan grows older he become “one of the natives” and eventually “king of the natives.” Such a scenario was not far fetched for the racist-tinged times of the 1950s and ’60s. However, evidence that the United States of America is not “post-racial” may well be found in the racially and ethnically stereotypical movie, “Avatar” released in 2010.

Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s show of partisanship during President Obama’s State of the Union address stands as one more piece of evidence that conservatives believe the American government belongs to them, not the people of the United States. With the echoes of U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson’s “You lie” barely still, Alito’s head-wagging, lip-mouthing “Not true” in response to Obama’s claim that a recent Supreme Court decision allowing corporations to spend on political campaign ads overturned a century of precedents and opened the floodgates to special interests went way past poor decorum.