What does it look like when reporters don’t question anything? When they trust too much?
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Tag Archives: police
A break from the local story
I have been pretty hard on local news media in past posts — especially when it comes to their coverage of cops. This post will go easy on local news — at least at where I am from. Let’s, then, spread the love! Continue reading
The $470,000 mistake
Here’s how to screw-up a police story: Bury the lede. Wanna do better? Bury the facts, too.
The Cedar Rapids paper published this story today about the police department’s purchase of 10 new squad cars. The only thing wrong? They missed the news. Continue reading
AMAZING: “Retired officer now works in evidence lab”
Why do media love police so much?
The Press-Citizen on June 1, focused on a retired cop who now works in the evidence lab.
Wow. Amazing. Continue reading
Pulitzer Prize for telling the “same old story”
In the stories included in the 2011 Pulitzer Prizes that were announced today, we see an interesting celebration of local journalism that is supposed to have revealed the “silent voices” that influence urban crime. The stories and multimedia produced by journalists in the Chicago Sun-Times were similar to what we see from any kind of news reporting on crime — stories of daring cops, violent minorities, and urban environments that somehow breed violence. Continue reading