Balanced TV Report From San Francisco (!!!) Examines $heehan's Benefactors

Mark Matthews, political beat reporter for KGO-TV, an Disney/ABC owned station in San Francisco, has filed a report from Crawford about the well-financed, well-organized goings-on with Cindy Sheehan's ongoing protest.

Even if you have dial-up, it's worth the wait for download to see Matthews speak briefly with a Gold Star Mother who is clearly uneasy about how thoroughly everything is managed, and the priceless reaction (at 2:10) of a Gold Star mother who is asked point blank if they received financial assistance to fly to Idaho to protest the President's VFW speech and then down to Texas.

As a lifelong resident of San Francisco, a news junkie going back to my single-digits, and someone who is so frustrated by the overwhelming bias in local newscasts I sometimes turn them off, I can only think of one word that could adequately describe Matthews' job in this piece: "Courageous."

If Dan Rather had Matthews' courage, he'd probably still have a job now.