Don’t get wrapped up the the Travon thing. Just say that he was a drug-dealer-in-training, and he was going to be killed on the streets in a few years anyway.
As for the media...don’t patronize them, and encourage anyone you talk with not to patronize them.
Remember Mark Twain’s admonition....Don’t get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel. Many are no longer buying it by the barrel, but by the quart.
My local Gannett paper constantly calls me wanting me to subscribe...I tell them that the editorial board advocates for things that I find abhorrent and I will not buy their product nor the products of their advertisers.
I don’t know who’s lower, the press or whores.
At least whores are honest.