A Sioux Falls, SD, TV station (KELO) has gone down a very predictable path in the aftermath of the fatal bus crash in Cottonwood, Minnesota. An illegal immigrant, just identified as Guatemalan Olga Marina Franco by the Minneapolis Star Tribune (link: http://www.startribu...), has been charged with four counts of criminal vehicular homicide in the deaths of four children riding on a school bus on a rural road.

Now, true to MSM form, KELO-TV offers the utterly predictable: a story entitled "Immigrants fear backlash from Morales" (link: http://www.keloland....). Morales is the false name Franco allegedly gave to police. It appears the story aired last night (2/24) on KELO's statewide network of stations.

One telling quote from the story: A Mexican (immigration status not offered, naturally), said, "Because of one incident, they judge everyone." There was no apparent attempt to point out that this is the latest of many such incidents across the country.

One reason the quality of journalism is so poor is that so many journalists follow a formula and rarely deviate from the party line.

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