Oct 31, 2007

hey journalists, serious question...

early today i read a story about a 17 year old highschool girl from Palo Alto who in broad daylight was brutally beaten, then dragged into a car, driven to another location and raped...it lasted 90 minutes...she managed to escape and is recovering...in that earlier story they identified the assailant as a "black man in his 20's"...and now 5 hours later i read another story reported by KRON news that describes the assailant "as a man between the ages of 20 and 30 with short hair and a medium height and build. He was last seen wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt." notice what's missing? i don't get it...what the hell does "a man between the ages of 20 and 30" mean? in the initial story they reported his race, in the updated story that information (possibly the most pertinent information in my mind) is missing...what.the.fuck.? can you help me out here? why on earth would a news source leave out information that could possibly lead to an arrest? serious question...cause in my mind, it's like if the victim reported to the police "he was driving a red 96 Honda Civic" and all that is released to the public is "he was driving a car"...

and also, to all the drivers who drove right past this girl who was bleeding from the face and head screaming for help...in broad daylight...happy halloween you pieces of shit...the police want to talk to you.

4 comments:

Dimitri said...

thismakesmesick

John Sakkis said...

me too, i guess nobody knows the answer to the question though.

Logan Ryan Smith said...

KRON most likely didn't have "confirmation" on the description of the guy's race. so they didn't report it.

the earlier report may have been "unconfirmed".

John Sakkis said...

why wouldn't they have confirmation?...this story came out 6 hours after the initial story. plenty of time for plebian reporter to check in with the PAPD...

and sadly you see this kind of reporting all the time, smells like PC crap to me.