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...BIZARRO WORLD Written and illustrated by various; Cover by Jaime Hernandez The follow-up to BIZARRO COMICS lets the world's greatest alternative cartoonists run rampant through the DC Universe. (Feb 16) See TIME.comix review of the first volume
...featuring classic lines such as “We don’t need to talk shit about Harvard, just read The Crimson”—isn’t quite as gangsta as his tough-guy persona suggests. MC Platano, a.k.a. Gabriel Hernandez, a sophomore, says “a lot of people call me Yale cuz I’m so well-endowed,” but one fan on his website’s online guestbook might as well call him Muffy...
...such anonymous case is that of Evalyn Hernandez. Like Laci Peterson, this pregnant young California woman was brutally murdered with her unborn baby. Also like Laci, her remains were found in San Francisco Bay. Interestingly, the national media never even made mention of this case...
...account for the difference in media coverage between the case of Evalyn Hernandez and the case of Laci Peterson? Laci is a Caucasian, middle class housewife from Modesto; Evalyn Hernandez is a poor immigrant from the Philippines. While this might not indicate inherent racism on the part of the media, it does represent the media’s obsession with the bottom line. The unwarranted airtime given to the Laci Peterson case is simply a tactic to boost ratings by covering the story that has the broadest public appeal—and, sadly, a case involving a young wealthy white...
While adults like Evalyn Hernandez go missing every day, Greta Van Susteren and her media cohorts spend hours expounding on why the jury foreman at Scott Peterson’s trial was dismissed. Although this soap-opera escapism may boost ratings, it is a slap in the face to serious journalism...