Time to focus on the real issues

By Liz Tjaden

The fault could be placed on the media. Or it could be placed on the craziness that comes when a huge election is approaching. Whichever it is, not even the best journalist could have made this story up.

On Oct. 22, a woman in Bloomfield, Pennsylvania, claimed she was attacked because she was a McCain supporter. Standing at the ATM, she recalled that her attacker, a black male, knocked her down and carved a ‘B’ on her face after he noticed she had a McCain sticker on her car.

Friday it was discovered that the incident had been fabricated. The woman had been attacked by mental health issues in the past but not by an angry Obama supporter. Maybe this story needed some fact checking but the reporters were only telling us what they had heard from the police. The media cannot be blamed here for the story being false but maybe for giving it so much coverage in the first place.

It’s time to get back to the real issues and celebrate the upcoming holiday by carving pumpkins, not faces.