Like me, you’re probably getting fed up with mainstream media’s coverage of wildlife issues lately. Although hunters make up a paltry 6% of the country’s overall population, every source, from the nightly news to Time magazine has been reporting on hunters’ atrocities against animals like a bunch of star-struck, goo-goo eyed fans, rather than impartial journalists.
Why else would news of a “contest” hunt for coyotes and wolves planned for December 28th in Salmon, ID, go unnoticed on the media’s radar screen?
You can bet if Justin Bieber (whoever the hell that is) stepped in dog crap, they’d be all over that shit.
But when an endangered species makes a bit of a comeback only to provide “recreational hunting opportunities” for psychopaths bent on their renewed extermination, they give it the coverage they would a company picnic.
That’s why Exposing the Big Game (ETBG) is starting a new series: “Headlines We’d Like to See” (based on Mad Magazine’s “Scenes We’d Like to See.”) Watch for installments over the coming weeks…
Anyway, getting back to my original point, adding wolves to the cast of potential derby victims should indeed shoot Idaho hunters in the collective foot—figuratively, if not literally.
Text and Wildlife Photography ©Jim Robertson, 2013. All Rights Reserved
Exposing the Big Game 
Good idea, Jim! And maybe with a little karma, there will be a few good hunting accidents to report on, too.
Nothing brings that feeling of fresh air and sunshine into the room better than reading about a bunch of competitive, ill tempered psychopaths with assault weapons blowing each other to hell.:-) …’but honest, officer, I thought he was a coyote!’. Yeah, right, but $1,000 bucks is a lot of money these days!
Maybe they will have a t-shirt for the winners that is all camo except for the red and white with a black center target over the heart? Oh yeah, and free beer, eh?
Shoot themselves in the face you mean? Hunting accidents are always the best news. Warms my heart everytime a hunter dies.
Paul Watson, as perceptive a media-critic as he is heroic defender of whales, had this to say about the media in one of his books: “The media are not interested in facts. The media want drama, humor, entertainment — in short, little mini-circuses to amuse the public every night. The mayor of St. John’s kissing a fish would serve that purpose as easily as a story about Mother Teresa helping children. Content took a back seat to entertainment values.” So, you’re really expecting the evening news to upset their viewers dinner with graphic images of wolf-killers tormenting and posing with the victims of their blood-lust?
On a slightly tangential note, did everyone notice the media brouhaha over the “Duck Dynasty” patriarch who reportedly made some “vile” anti-gay slurs, reputedly based on his deep-felt fundamentalist Christian values (yet another serial animal-abusing Christer!). Apparently it’s OK nowadays to look like a total scumbag, regularly kill and maim animals for recreational purposes, manufacture and become a gillionaire off of a device that has probably lured millions of animals to an untimely death, but god-forbid you should say anything politically incorrect that upsets the LGBT community — that’s simply beyond the pale and gets you pilloried on Huff-Post and the Rachel Maddow show. Kind of like finding principle fault with Hitler because of his pedestrian taste in art. It speaks volumes about the upside-down moral priorities of current society and it’s why no right-thinking person can respect anything about American media, culture, laws or civilization.
Excellent points and examples of media priorities and values, and the fact that the left are as anthropocentric as the right-wing fundamentalists when it comes to human issues and interests vrs. non-human suffering and annihilation. Glad to hear daddy-Duck Dynasty shot himself in the foot! I hadn’t read about that yet; hope it was a fatal faux pas for him. Thanks for the Paul Watson quote; I remember reading that in Ocean Warrior, I think it was.
Pingback: Santa Grants Dying Child’s One Wish, Sends Hunters to Hell | Exposing the Big Game
Pingback: Humans Suddenly Get It, Go Vegan En Masse | Exposing the Big Game
Pingback: “Wish Someone Dead Foundation” Grants Child’s Homicidal Request | Exposing the Big Game
Pingback: Don’t Miss the Premire Episode of “Black Sheep Robertson: Revenge of the Ducks” | Exposing the Big Game
Pingback: “Endangered” Hunter Auctioned off to Save Species | Exposing the Big Game