No Media Bias Here . . .

In anticipation of "Sunshine Sunday," now a part of the even larger "Sunshine Week," the media-concocted, self-aggrandizing event, the Tampa Tribune has been printing an invitation for readers to share their stories of "problems or successes" in obtaining government records.

Here's the lead-in to the invitation, which has been running each day on the Op-Ed page: "Florida's commitment to open government is one of the state's greatest strengths, but every year the Legislature tries to weaken public access by passing exemptions to Florida's Sunshine Laws." So you see, no matter how important the public policy behind an exemption may be and no matter how significant the interest protected by an exemption is . . . to the media it's just another attempt by the Legislature "to weaken public access."

Yes, and I suppose that laws that make it illegal to sell firearms to convicted felons are intended "to weaken the Second Amendment rights" of such folks. Guess it's all just a matter of perspective. And it's fine for the media to have their own point of view on such matters . . . but let's not even pretend that the media is objective about these things.

And does anybody want to make a small wager as to how many "successes" get written about during Sunshine Week?