media story. it means our government, our political organizations is still assuming media means something came from a kind of vetted set of sources that an editor took a look at. that sort of thing. it is about race in this sense. if i called up "hardball" and said here i am in new orleans. i have a video of a martian on the corner of st. charles avenue. you would say, really? breaking a story about a martian would be exciting, you would assume it's not true because you know that martians are a myth. the fact that when someone said i have a video clip here of reverse racism in action that so many people immediately believed not only that it was true, but that it was likely tells us that the right has really won in defining reverse racism as something that's true, something likely, when in fact, it's something much more on the order of a martian standing on st.