The Saints-Falcons Game: Where was the Press When We Needed it?

Why is this not a news story? Why is it millions of Thanksgiving NFL TV watchers witnessed it today, yet it is going unnoticed?
  I could hardly believe my eyes. I had to come home, and watch it on YouTube to verify I saw it correctly.
   Now, as you know, the National Anthem kneeling controversy swept the nation last season, cutting into league revenues. This season? Not so much.
  But, let me ask: If -- during the Star-Spangled Banner -- most black athletes were not placing their hands over their hearts, while most whites were -- wouldn't that be a story?
   Of some kind.
   I mean, just a little bit of a story
   At least as a follow-up to the flag controversy, right?
   No. Wrong. It is more than a follow-up; It is a continuation. Perhaps, any way, though I guess it depends on why they didn't have their hands over their hearts. If these players are not placing their hands over their hearts as a way of showing support for the blacks they feel are being discriminated against -- if they are just doing that instead of kneeling -- it is all the same controversy.
  And, reporters are sitting there watching this, and not reporting on it? Yes, I must wonder what is going on. Why is the press not reporting this?
  Let's say you watched Holli Conway singing the National Anthem before the Saints-
Falcon game today, and you counted about five white players who put their hands over their hearts, and none who didn't. Let's say you counted about two black players who placed their hand over their heart, while maybe eight did not.
  Just a coincidence, I suppose, right?
  Certainly, nothing to write about.
  In another controversy in our nation -- about whether the press is an enemy of the people, I have stood with the press. But, I cannot excuse the press on this matter. Even if you don't approve of the kneelers (or those who don't place their hands over their hearts), and even if you can see the NFL suffered financially because of the controversy, and even if you don't want to hurt the NFL . . .
   News is news. You're a newsperson. You don't ignore the story and look the other way and hope it will go away; You write it. This is America. We call you the fifth estate. You are a part of the democratic process. If you abdicate on that responsibility, America fades a little bit from being America.