Olympic Park Security Guard Dies

MSNBC is reporting the death of the security guard who was wrongly accused in the 1996 Olympic bombings in Atlanta. Richard Jewell was 44 and had had kidney problems since the end of February 2007.

I remember that incident all too well. Surprisingly, some original reporting from that incident still exists on the web, courtesy of CNN.com, or as it was known back then, CNN Interactive.

But it is amazing that that event has been politicised by some on the right. Amazing and shameful. I've located an article on right wing news website WorldNetDaily, which claims,astonishingl, that Democraitc President Bill Clinton covered up the bombings! It's from about 3 years ago now, but the ridiculousness of it beggars belief. It's part of a series of articles about a so called 'political deciet' that led us to September 11 2001.

This is why I am against the news being politicised, by any and all sides. To me News = Fact and I know that politics and facts are not exactly comfortable bedfellows at the best of the times. Keep the personal political viewpoints in the opinion columns and blogs, not in the news.