The Phoenix Airport [Gateway Airport in Mesa, not Phoenix Sky Harbor Int’l.] has deep-sixed CNN and Fox News from its airport TV sets. The reason: too many some passengers see them as political biased. (Welcome folks to the 21st century when seeing a network or show that you think is politically biased in an airport means you have to complain to have it removed since — as we all know — when you are exposed to a different opinion, a different take on an issue, or see someone interviewed in a way that is either too biased for you or not in keeping enough with your own biases it will disintegrate your head and possibly kill you).
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.