The media...
Oct. 23rd, 2002 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisI started out in life as a newspaper reporter. So I understand the pressures of working in the media but a night like tonight reminds me of one of the several reasons I switched careers really early on.
Obviously someone they suspect in the Washington DC sniper deal was, at one time, a soldier at Fort Lewis (one of those kids we train to kill people, remember) in Tacoma. This morning the FBI swooped in to collect evidence out of his former back yard. They dug up shit and carried off tree stumps. They are still at it.
Our local TV staions - 4 our to 5 of them - started coverage before the 5 p.m. usual news slots. They have had continuous coverage since then so that's now more than 2 hours and outside of the paragraph above which is half speculation on my part, they KNOW NOTHING FOR SURE! They have interviewed neighbors who know nothing. They have interviewed the FBI who won't say anything and the rest of the 2 hours have been helicopter shots of somebody's back yard.
I just love it when no news is reported so very thoroughly.
Obviously someone they suspect in the Washington DC sniper deal was, at one time, a soldier at Fort Lewis (one of those kids we train to kill people, remember) in Tacoma. This morning the FBI swooped in to collect evidence out of his former back yard. They dug up shit and carried off tree stumps. They are still at it.
Our local TV staions - 4 our to 5 of them - started coverage before the 5 p.m. usual news slots. They have had continuous coverage since then so that's now more than 2 hours and outside of the paragraph above which is half speculation on my part, they KNOW NOTHING FOR SURE! They have interviewed neighbors who know nothing. They have interviewed the FBI who won't say anything and the rest of the 2 hours have been helicopter shots of somebody's back yard.
I just love it when no news is reported so very thoroughly.
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Date: 2002-10-23 06:55 pm (UTC)The plot thickens ...
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Date: 2002-10-23 07:03 pm (UTC)I kind of would have liked to have known what was happening in the rest of the world tonight. But, I can get that tomorrow morning, too. Geesh.
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Date: 2002-10-23 07:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-10-23 07:12 pm (UTC)