Three basic facts about the DJs who brought house music to the US: They weren't white, they weren't French and they didn't have to go very far because they were coming from Chicago, which, according to most of the references on my shelf, is considered part of the US. ABC's NIGHTLINE is doing no major harm to anyone but itself by promoting a five-minute puff piece on a guy who was 13 or 14 at the time with the headline "How DAVID GUETTA helped bring house music to the US." It's puffery being puffery. Bad TV being bad TV. Random pop-culture filler being random pop-culture filler. But correspondent ZACHARY KIESCH's piece on a talented 21st century pop star who caught a good ride on a good wave is an ugly act of erasure—of the black men who started that wave when they created house in Chicago's gay clubs in the '80s. Men like FRANKIE KNUCKLES, whose parties at the WAREHOUSE gave the music its name. Men like MARSHALL JEFFERSON and MR. FINGERS, whose recordings helped codify a sound. Others whose stories NIGHTLINE is unlikely to ever tell. True pioneers. At some point over the weekend, ABC changed its online headline to the less sexy and more accurate "David Guetta on his latest album '7' and his rise to the top," presumably as a result of social-media shaming from the dance music community. The piece itself, in which Kiesch implies house is a European phenomenon that crested with Guetta's work with the BLACK EYED PEAS and FLO RIDA circa 2009-2010, remains unchanged. Life goes on. And ABC NEWS goes back to covering Washington and Saudi Arabia and elections, and you'll have to take it on faith that it's paying more attention to its fact-checkers in those arenas and that it isn't erasing anyone else... Guetta shows up at #5 in DJ MAG's annual TOP 100 DJs poll, published this weekend. MARTIN GARRIX is #1 for a third straight year... DAN RUNCIE's TRAPITAL newsletter is an essential hip-hop business read. You should subscribe. But I take issue with his suggestion, in the middle of his argument for why SPOTIFY should spin off RAPCAVIAR as a separate company, that RapCaviar could be a record label and guarantee its artists placement in its influential playlist. Dealmaking obviously happens in major playlists, often for good reason. But if a playlist explicitly tells me it's trading record deals for placement, I'm unfollowing faster than you can say ALAN FREED or DICK CLARK. I kinda disagree with the entire piece, actually, and yet I'll be first in line to suggest you read it... $44 million!!! For a song that never made it past a Billboard "Bubbling Under" chart! Wow... How the media would have covered the events of A STAR IS BORN.