A Sporting Life

A Sporting LifeIt was a melancholy evening in a northern Michigan tavern when I sat down to watch The Guns of Autumn, a CBS News documentary ostensibly about hunting in America. In what I thought to be a strange tack, hunting was presented as a white-trash habit, something that ill-educated, mostly rural boobs do every fall. In one of the strangest forms of advocacy journalism I'd ever seen, CBS developed an idea of hunting, then wandered around the country shooting footage that supported its id...