FBI: 1, Mob: 0

As seen from the video above, the largest mob bust in FBI history occurred early in the morning today, January 20, 2011. A total of 127 members of the leading Mafia groups have been charged with crimes, even crimes as far back as the 1980s. 110 of the 127 members have already been arrested in New York, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Italy and the rest will soon follow. Despite the wide scope of the arrest some are not so sure that it will have any real effect on organized crime.

A former police reporter, Leonard Levitt, said in a recent article to the LA Times, "'the fact that none of the suspects is well-known outside of mob circles may be a sign 'the mob is not what it used to be. '

'The mob keeps coming back despite all these arrests. Yet at the same time nobody knows who these guys are,' he said, comparing them to past figures such as Carlo Gambino and John Gotti, whose names were known to the general public.

Levitt attributed that in part to competition from new crops of organized crime gangs from Asia, Mexico and elsewhere who have nudged the Italian families aside. 'They just don't have the same monopoly,' he said of the Italian mobster families who once dominated organized crime" (LA Times).

Link to the Article: LA Times: Mob Bust

Link to the Indictments: Indictments 

Now to decide whether this is journalism or not. One would think that since it made it into a major newspaper that it is in fact journalism, but that is not always the case. In this particular case, the article is journalism. The article provides not only specific details of an event, but also various views of the event. With those two things accomplished the article can be considered journalism. Those are not the only requisites to be considered journalism there is also cross referencing with other related events, either by nature or in direct relation with one of the people involved with the event.

This week's Core Biblical Truth is Creation, "In God's sovereignty, He controls the rise and fall of rulers and nations". In this particular article it deals with the fall of rulers. The arrests of the 110 members of the American organized crime scene show that justice does prevail and that the wicked are punished, even if it feels like that it is way too late to do any good for those who were affected by those mobsters. But one still cannot deny the fact that they finally got what was coming to them, or in Biblical terms, they reaped what they had sowed. I say give a round of applause to the FBI. The good guys have just scored a major victory.