Meth has become the scourge of our society. Yet all you hear about on TV news and in daily newspapers, such as the Arizona Republic, is crack cocaine. Even the almost anachronistic drug, heroin, gets more air time and column space.

Sure, TV news and newspapers mention it when the cops bust a meth dealer, or a meth lab blows up. All this is pretty much in the vein of making publicity whores like Sheriff Joe Arpaio look like they're solving the meth problem, which (if you believe TV and the Republic) is confined to a few rednecks and Mexican gang members. From the looks of it, the media, particularly the Republic and its broadcast clone, Channel 12, are in bed with local law enforcement to masquerade that there's really no meth problem, and that what little there is is being taken care of by big, bad cops like Sheriff Joke.

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