It was quite the scene, so many in the media dripping tears on their keyboards over the fact tycoon thief Conrad Black will be going to jail for six and half years.

A column in the National Post bemoaned the verdict and sentencing, but credited Black with standing before the court as “an honest man.” The jury’s dissent, apparently meaningless.

A column in the Globe and Mail said his crimes were “relatively minor stuff.” Another cried that the sentence was “too severe.” The former publisher of the Toronto Star wailed that "he gets 78 months for being innocent and quarterback Michael Vick gets 23 months for the most sickening deed of all, dog-fighting?" Dog fighting. The most sickening deed of all. Brilliant.

The shedding of crocodile tears for poor Lord Black of the Federal Bureau of Prisons shows how many in the media now are such champions of the overdog.

One day they’re screaming because some teenager who steals a $15,000 car isn’t jailed for life. The next they are whining about the injustice of a millionaire being jailed for stealing $6 million.

What’s their point, that teen car thieves should aim higher?