Far be it from me to offer moral support to someone best known to the world as Oprah Winfrey's friend (and the editor of Winfrey's magazine, O). King knows where to get moral support -- and a new car, too -- if she wants it. Still I have to cheer her on in the silly controversy over an interview she did with a WNBA star. King was known to me, by the way, before she went national. She was a news anchor at WFSB in Hartford, CT for many years, during some of which I was living in nearby Enfield, and regularly watching that station's local news. But, to the controversy: after the death of Kobe Bryant, and a lot of all-too-typical 'he was the greatest thing in the universe and we'll all miss him": coverage, King did an interview with a woman basketball player, Lisa Leslie, who was a friend of Kobe's. King went where most of the postmortem coverage wouldn't, bringing up the fact that Bryant had settled sexual assault allegations against him in 2003....
