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Friday, 28 March 2008

What is and what is not news

For some reason I don't know we are watching stupid local news. Here's what's not a news story - some guys are shoplifting. Yes, that's the big story. Wait, here are the exciting details - they stole from a couple of Macy's stores and they drove a gray Nissan! And, some "helpful customer" got the license number of the car. So police "think they know who they're looking for."

Oh yeah? They think they know who they're looking for? What's their best clue - the license plate number of the car belonging to the people doing the shoplifting?

Genius.

Meanwhile, something that's actually newsworthy, the Boston Police Department advocating for the right to search people's homes without a warrant but "only to look for guns", gets about 8 seconds of attention. Then it's right onto whining about how expensive gas is, etc.

Thanks for the absolutely fantastic news coverage.

Posted: Mar 28, 2008 01:00

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