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Monday, I pointed to the image that the networks' newscasts have built of Arizona over the years, "a state whose civic discourse is imbued with callousness, extremism, violence and vigilantism." Tucson native Savannah Guthrie seems to have picked up on the same negativity. The NBC White House correspondent returned to her hometown to cover Barack Obama's attendance at the memorial for those killed in Saturday's shooting. She tried to set the record straight with a boosterish "vibrant and diverse place, a mix of urban and rural, Native American and Hispanic roots, political progressives and conservatives." She touted the University of Arizona, the desert vistas, its Wild West roots, its main drag downtown, dubbed by LIFE magazine "the ugliest street in America."
But even a hometown girl could not deny the toxic atmosphere: "The politics lately have been a little bit rough…anything but pretty, a hot house of bitter battles over illegal immigration."
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