Two children aged 11 and 13 gunned down their classmates and a teacher in a tragic shooting in Jonesboro, Arkansas on March 24. The media’s reaction? Disparage the residents of the town by insulting their Southern heritage and trampling on their right to bear arms.

ABC’s Rebecca Chase linked Jonesboro with other school shootings on the March 25 World News Tonight: "Jonesboro, Arkansas. West Paducah, Kentucky. Pearl, Mississippi. All cases of kids killing kids with guns, all in the South, all in states with fewer gun control laws. In Arkansas, a child of any age can have a rifle or shotgun. While easy accessibility is a nationwide problem, in the South there are simply more guns available." Though the story matched the liberal agenda to enact gun control laws, Chase did give time to the other side, delivering their arguments on the benefits of children learning to use a rifle safely.

Most network coverage went straight for the jugular of Southern culture. On the March 25 Today, Katie Couric asked Ronald Stephens of the National School Boards Safety Center: "I read you something before this interview about experts saying that Southern culture may be a factor because these incidents that have been so high profile have happened in southern rural towns because they say there is more access to guns. It’s a climate of people feeling strong about the right to bear arms. They are introduced to guns early on. Do you think there is any, any credibility in that assessment?"

Couric continued the next day, badgering Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee: "This is a third deadly shooting to take place in the South in the last five months, and some criminal experts have ventured a guess that southern society, which has a more permissive attitude towards guns and hunting, and perhaps in some circles even glamorizes those things that might have been a factor in some, this recent spate of shootings. What’s your view of that?" Huckabee replied: "Colin Ferguson got on a train in Long Island, shot 39 people. That wasn’t Long Island, Arkansas."

On CNN’s Inside Politics on March 25, anchor Bernard Shaw pushed anti-gun Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.): "Should there be a federal law that convicts adults whose guns fall into the hands of the children you’re referring to?"

Nolanda Hill, a long-time business associate of late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown testified that, under the direction of Hillary Clinton, the administration sold seats on trade missions to big donors. Instead of running with the non-sex scandal story, ABC’s and NBC’s evening shows skipped Hill’s charges as CBS aired one story and then dropped the subject. But that’s still more coverage than Hill attracted last year when she said that Brown took payoffs.

Reporting on an affidavit released March 23 and her court testimony that day, at the top of FNC’s evening Fox Report, reporter Carl Cameron explained: "Hill said Brown told her that the scheme was First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s idea to raise money for the 1996 campaign." On the CBS Evening News Bob Schieffer missed the Hillary connection, but added that "when a conservative watchdog group, Judicial Watch, became suspicious and filed suit to get government documents about the trips, she said Brown told her former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta and presidential aide John Podesta urged him to hold back the documents until after the 1996 elections and to devise ‘a way not to comply with the court’s orders.’"

While CNN’s The World Today squeezed in a story, Inside Politics skipped the development. The next day ABC’s Good Morning America devoted a 17-second item to Hill’s allegations, but that was it for ABC: nothing on World News Tonight. NBC ignored the tale of corruption entirely on Nightly News and Today.

Last June ABC’s Prime Time Live featured a story by Brian Ross in which Hill told how she paid Brown hundreds of thousands of dollars for his interest in her businesses, for which he had paid nothing, and other shady financial dealings. Not only did CBS, CNN and NBC fail to report the bombshell allegations, but even ABC’s other shows refused to pass on their own network’s exclusive.

1. Hush Money for Friendly Witnesses.

Hillary’s former law partner and friend Webster Hubbell was forced to resign in early 1994 as Associate Attorney General, the Justice Department’s number-three position, for embezzling nearly a half-million dollars from the Rose Law Firm, with some of his false expense accounts signed by his Rose Law partner Hillary Clinton. Last year, print reporters discovered Hubbell had been paid more than $500,000 from dozens of Clinton-affiliated people for "jobs" (on which little or no work was performed), more than he’d ever made in a year in his whole life. With the bonanza arriving as he was allegedly cooperating with Whitewater counsel Ken Starr, investigators suspect Hubbell was paid to keep quiet.

In May 1997, USA Today revealed Clinton pal Vernon Jordan got Hubbell a job with Revlon, the same company he later approached to get a job for Monica Lewinsky. In December, the Los Angeles Times reported Mickey Kantor, the President’s 1992 campaign manager later named Commerce Secretary, admitted he lied when he said he didn’t attempt to get Hubbell jobs. Neither of these stories was reported by any network evening news show — until NBC’s Lisa Myers explored Jordan’s role in a March 3, 1998 Nightly News story.

2. Destruction or Hiding of Documents.

Obstruction of justice occurred in the destruction of or hiding of relevant documents in the Whitewater investigation. Rose Law Firm shreddings, late-appearing billing records in the White House residence, and White House lawyers’ meeting notes like "Vacuum Rose Law files" underline that important evidence in the Whitewater story may never be recovered.

Last November, Associated Press reported that a mechanic discovered a stash of Whitewater documents, including a check made out to Bill Clinton from Whitewater partner Jim McDougal, in the trunk of a tornado-damaged Mercury Marquis once owned by McDougal courier Henry Floyd. Clinton claimed he never borrowed money from his felonious business partner, but the check matched the amount of a Whitewater loan repayment. The bank documents included information on the fraudulent Castle Grande transaction Mrs. Clinton worked on for McDougal. Only NBC Nightly News broadcast a full story.

3. Violating the Privacy Rights of Adversaries.

In June 1996, the White House admitted aide Craig Livingstone and others had collected FBI files on 338 Republican officials from past administrations. Later, the real number of files surpassed 900. After a brief burst of coverage, the networks dropped the story.

On September 25, 1996, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) revealed a six-month gap in the log which listed who at the White House was accessing FBI background files on Republicans. On October 4, Sen. Hatch released the deposition of White House aide Mari Anderson. She verified that pages of the log used to record the taking of FBI files were missing. Anderson also asserted, contradicting White House aide Craig Livingstone’s assurances, that Livingstone knew the Clinton White House was procuring the FBI files of Republicans. Only CNN reported these developments briefly.

4. Failing to Comply with Subpoenas.

Well after DNC Finance Director Richard Sullivan testified in July 1997 before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, the DNC belatedly released 4,000 pages of subpoenaed documents from Sullivan’s office. Months after the subpoenas arrived, the files supposedly were finally found by Sullivan’s successor in the only filing cabinet in his office.

5. Keeping Meetings Secret by Filing False Statements.

Last December, Judge Royce Lamberth fined the White House $286,000 for health czar Ira Magaziner’s lying (at White House lawyers’ direction) about the composition of Hillary’s health care task force in order to keep meetings closed to the public. Lamberth issued the fine to reimburse the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons for costs in their lawsuit against the Clinton health planners.

The White House claimed throughout the litigation the task force had no non-governmental employees on it. After Lamberth’s fine, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Archer called on Magaziner to resign. Just as they’d ignored the AAPS suit from the beginning, the networks aired nothing on the Lamberth decision or Archer’s call for Magaziner to step down.