Anne Taylor Fleming is an author and regular essayist for PBS' NewsHour. Tonight's essay discussed the growing gap between the rich and the super rich on one hand, and the large number of non-rich persons on the other. It's not that notable for its content, only that which she keeps forgetting to mention.

In tonight's show, she discussed making annual pilgramages to Beverly Hills to do window-shopping, and was shocked that a purse was being sold for $28,000. She informed us that Los Angeles has more millionaires than any other U.S. city. Then, it cut to a shot of her on perhaps Broadway downtown (or perhaps on one of the streets in the Wilshire area) standing in front of a Hispanic boutique discussing how there are hundreds of thousands of very poor people in the same city. Something vaguely multicultural followed.

In a show from some years ago, she discussed how some of the poorest cities in either California or the U.S. are located in the South East L.A. area, specifically Maywood, Cudahy, etc.

In the first case and if I recall in the second, she did not mention the predominant reason there are so many poor people in those areas: massive immigration, especially of the illegal variety. She also did not look into the correlation between the gap mentioned in the first report and said massive immigration. I suspect there's a large degree of causation involved as well.

If ATF is really concerned about these issues, perhaps she can make up for the NewsHour's pro-illegal immigration, pro-amnesty bias by discussing these matters in a more complete detail than can be found in their other coverage.