Shepard Case Update

I did not see the broadcast referenced below but it is interesting information on the Matthew Shepard Case. I did not follow this closely but if what is said below it is yet another example of how the mainstream media hears what they want to hear, get wrong and just report a story that fits their agenda and worldview. Turns out Laramie got dragged the mud by the media for nothing. The following is a column by Michael Medved who does movie reviews and is also a conservative pundit of sorts.


A recent broadcast of ABC's 20/20 shed new light on a celebrated murder case.
The two thugs who fatally beat Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard granted their first television interviews from the prison cells where they're serving life sentences.
Though mainstream media eagerly embraced Shepard as a victim of homophobia, both killers described a robbery gone wrong that had no connection to sexual orientation.
Indeed, the trial transcript gave no evidence that the two meth-crazed perpetrators — who had brutalized several straight victims in the days, and even the hours, before they assaulted Shepard — had been motivated by homophobia. Nonetheless, all three of the TV movies about Shepard portrayed his death as a "hate crime," as did "The Laramie Project," a play performed across the country in high schools and other venues.
For gay activists, Shepard remains such a convenient martyr that they can't face the increasingly obvious facts about his tragic death