Ha! Let us guess – he thinks the scrutiny and attention he and his political bed mates have gotten these past few months have been unfair? Maybe he should’ve given some more thought to who he sidled up to long before all of this happened. Public scrutiny and transparency really suck when the bright lights are shining in your face for a change.

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said he’s unhappy about corporate ownership of news organizations in the United States.He said at a press luncheon Monday he was not threatening litigation. He simply wanted to express his frustrations.

“Something that worries me more so than the war and Iraq and money in politics is freedom of the press,” Hood said. “Is our press free anymore? The corporate ownership of the press nationally is a concern to me.”

Hood spoke in Jackson at a luncheon sponsored by the Capitol press corps and Mississippi State University’s John C. Stennis Institute of Government. The audience of about 20 did not include any high-level editors or news executives.

Several Mississippi newspapers, TV stations and radio stations are owned by out-of-state corporations. The Associated Press is a worldwide, not-for-profit news organization based in New York, and it has an office in Jackson.

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