Hello to Namibia and Wesley Snipes - 10.20.2006.2

So it seems that the various talking heads need to tone down their rhetoric. I’m speaking about comments that I have heard in regards to Mr. Wesley Snipes. While Mr. Snipes has been indited by the government, the hoopla that has been brewing seems to be misplaced. You may have seem comments like ‘where is Welsely Snipes’ or comments like ‘no one can find Mr. Snipes’ and each comment made no mention that perhaps Mr. Snipes was working out of the country.

In my post Where is Wesley Snipes? - 10.18.2006.1 I speculated that Mr. Snipes might just be out of the country. Like many entertainers in the movie acting industry, Mr. Snipes does travel out of the country to film projects on location. In many cases an on location shoot can take months, occasionally taking years, to film. Knowing this, without the help of a journalism degree or an entire news division, I guessed that Mr. Snipes could not be reached due to work. And now we know that this was just the case.

I wonder though why not one news agency that I saw, and not one article I read, mentioned this possibility. Rather they just inferred that Mr. Snipes was in hiding. Why? I’ve seen anchors defend and minimize actions of dozens of entertainers. I’ve heard them brush off gun charges and violence by rappers, barely mention potential criminal actions of actors, and breeze past arrests of musicians and singers on drug charges. Yet, there has been a direct implication of Mr. Snipes being guilty and hiding. Why the difference? What is so different about this one actor as opposed to these other entertainers? Tell me what you think it is, or if you disagree.

This is what I think, what do you think?