Heard a lot about that lately haven't you? I called WRAL a couple of weeks ago 'concerned' about the lack of coverage. I also asked if they had received any relevant information from the church of Morris Dees which still has it listed on their website as a hate crime during the year of 2005. I stated surely almost a year later they had leads, especially considering according to the city poll a few weeks back less than 20% of Durham citizens felt unsafe out after dark, there must be Klansmen running up and down the streets of Durham after dark they could arrest...
I have been seriously thinking of taking it up as a personal cross to contact every TV news director in the country and furnish them with the devastating Harper's Magazine piece on this man who has made a personal fortune from calling other people racists.
Media in general, but especially local TV stations, need to be monitored and called on it (in a constructive way) every time that they parrott one of his news releases as though it had some moral authority. And they do it ALL the time. Networks, too, even FOX.
(If anyone doesn't know, Dees runs the highly profitable Southern Poverty Law Center. He has been completely discredited by Harpers and other serious media but is still widely treated as a civil rights saint.)