Just on a short note, we’d like to point out that a couple of weeks ago when word broke that Good Day America’s Greg Kelly might be involved in a rape case, the New York Daily News was kind enough to give the popular anchorman their entire front cover.
For Kelly, whether he was involved in what turned out to be an unsubstantiated accusation, full of rants by a woman bordering on the absurd, the full page cover and pages that followed inside undoubtedly damaged his career and reputation. There will always be people who see those pages in their mind’s eye and hold onto the opinion that he was guilty and that he got away with it either because of his celebrity status or the fact that his father happens to be the Commissioner of the NYPD.
What is truly reprehensible about this situation is on the day that he was cleared of any involvement in the case—which was not even an actual case- the same New York Daily News gave Kelly a one inch circle at the lower right hand corner of the front page that simply read Kelly Cleared in Sex Charge Inside. They didn’t even direct readers to the page on which theycould read the truth. It turns out that they did a two page spread story on the inside detailing the situation.
Somehow we feel that for the man so loved by his viewers and supported by his colleagues, his innocence should have taken precedence over 18 pages of photos of the Super Bowl Champion Giants and been given the same spotlight as was the unfounded careless deformation of his character.
But we have to say the media is consistent—they treat their own with the same presumption, carelessness and disrespect as they treat the public.
