Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, a Republican now running for attorney general, isn't happy with an interview on Phoenix's KPNX Channel 12, and is asking supporters to send comments to "outrageous liberal reporter" Brahm Resnik.

This weekend on Channel 12's 'Sunday Square Off' Tom Horne was interviewed by an obviously biased Brahm Resnik. Many of you witnessed how he intentionally didn't allow Tom to explain his position on various issues by speaking over him numerous times, yet he allowed his liberal Democrat opponent, Felecia Rotellini, to talk at lengths about her views. He was extremely rude towards Tom. Liberal bias in the media, especially when it is this rude and unprofessional, should be protested.

We've used the term "illegal immigrant" at Weekly World Central before, and some of those abusive cretins who take the time to comment have informed us that "immigrant" is a joke, and "alien" is best.

This morning, a diversity blog from the Society of Professional Journalists brought it all home for me that the wrong word we've used all along isn't immigrant; perhaps a word is missing before illegal.

When we write about a crime that's taken place we always use the word suspect. Immigrants arrested because they are undocumented have yet to face a judge, and last time I checked, we still have a Constitution, despite the mob.

Enjoy the read here.

For those newswriters who insist on using the phrase “illegal immigrant” (or perhaps because it is a required, company policy); add the modifying adjective “suspected,” as “pro” journalists do when writing about arrestees or police suspects.

A fundamental legal principle in our American constitutional law is that everyone (including non-citizens) is considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Consistent with that basic doctrine of law, journalists are urged to use the phrase “undocumented immigrant,” and avoid the denigrative phrases “illegal immigrant” or “illegal alien.”

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According to the Maddow blog here, folks from her show fell in love with Tucson:

We really did have a blast last night, watching the Rachel Maddow Show with the good people of Arizona. People packed the club and the Tap Room at Tucson's Hotel Congress. The hotel's barkeep of more than half a century, Tiger, was there until the sun set and he cashed out. Bill gave a big speech. The party got a shout-out from Rachel on the show. And we met a ton of Arizonans who are trying their level best to make theirs an even more wonderful state.

A group of producers from MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show are in town to do some reporting on the border for the show's blog and they'll be watching Rachel at Hotel Congress' Tap Room tonight from 5:30 to 7:30. Stop by if you want to meet the crew and get a hat or T-shirt.

KGUN Channel 9 anchor Jennifer Waddell has signed a three-year contract extension with the ABC affiliate.

“We’re thrilled to have renewed our contract with Jennifer and look forward to more success,” said KGUN news director Forrest Carr.

Waddell made an impact on the market immediately upon her arrival. She has an engaging personality and ability to connect with the audience—and her ability to comprehend a variety of topics makes the usually unbearable end-of-segment chat aspect of television news palatable.

Her initial contract came to a close last month, and in the waning days of negotiations, KGUN placed an anchor-posiition posting on its Web site and national job sites. Now that Waddell and the station have agreed to terms, that job posting will probably be removed.

Oddly, Waddell was not allowed to comment for this story.

On Monday, July 26, Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism published a report on how newspapers and TV news handled the video release on Agriculture Department staffer Shirley Sherrod. You can read it here.

Ironically, one message that emerges from the debris of the Sherrod episode is something Breitbart wrote as the first words in the post containing his now controversial video excerpt:

“Context is everything.”

This three-page letter was anonymously sent to me. It's ... special.

A Chicago Fox News affiliate recently delivered a particularly stupid story questioning whether libraries were a big waste of tax dollars:

They eat up millions of your hard earned tax dollars. It's money that could be used to keep your child's school running. So with the internet and e-books, do we really need millions for libraries?

Libraries are quiet havens for the community. They take us to other worlds. They even make us laugh. But should these institutions — that date back to 1900 B.C. — be on the way out?

And reporter Anna Davlantes actually used a hidden camera to report the piece.

We're a long way from Chicago (and library officials there are defending their library system without us.) But let us say that we find the Pima County Public Library to be a great community resource. We check out a lot of books, DVDs and CDs. We browse magazines and take advantage of Consumer Reports when we're considering a major purchase. We search the catalog online, place our order with a few clicks and get an e-mail when our latest request is waiting for us on the holdshelf. In short, we love the local library.

And, to the point of this piece, we'd like to congratulate them on a newly redesigned and nifty website.

The Tucson Weekly won three awards in the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies' 2010 Altweekly Awards. The results were announced Friday, July 16, at the AAN annual convention.

Weekly art director Adam Kurtz nabbed top honors in the editorial layout category (less than 50,000 circulation) for his print layout of "The Strange Saga of Geronimo's Skull" (June 11, 2009)

Renee Downing nabbed second place honors for political column. She won for "Unfortunately, Arizonans Are Getting What We're Paying For" (Dec. 10, 2009), "Price Tags: The Elephant in the Room in Health Care" (Nov. 12, 2009) and "If You May One Day Need to Go to an ER, You Should Support Health-Care Reform" (Sept. 17, 2009).

Tim Vanderpool won his third Altweekly Award in the last three years, this time earning honorable mention in the short-form news category, for his coverage of Tucson Greyhound Park: "Kennel No. 1" (April 23, 2009), "Ordinance Ignored" (Oct. 15, 2009) and "Greyhound Runaround" (Dec. 3, 2009).

In other news, Tucson Weekly editor Jimmy Boegle was elected to the AAN Board of Directors as the chair of the Diversity Committee.

Olivia Munn notes that Republicans have plenty of constitutional problems with radar cameras that might catch them committing a crime, but have no trouble with SB 1070.