Channel 2:
Pretty straightforward report - foot chase, guy swallows drugs (lots of drugs evidently), chokes and passes out, ambulance summoned, guy dies from stupidity.
Now we move on to Channel 5:
Now we move on to Channel 5:
"Allegedly?" What are the readers to imply from this headline? That the police rode around with some of those guns and dope they plant on everyone, picked a random person on the street, held him down and stuffed enough dope down his throat to kill him?
And then Channel 7:
And then Channel 7:
There's that word again - "allegedly." And then the Channel 7 article, which is about three times the size of any of the other reporting, heads into la-la-land:
- "They hit him with the car, they grabbed him and slammed him into the fence and a wall," said a witness who identified herself as Dee Dee.
- Witnesses claim the police were rough with the young man, and they say officers were in no hurry to get him help.
- "They waited 15 to 20 minutes to get the boy some help, and once they did, the boy was dead," said another witness who wished to remain anonymous.
- "This is abuse, this is negligence, this is just inconsideration for human life," said West Side resident Charles Banks.
Wow. That's some great reporting by Channel 7's Ben Bradley. Someone named Dee Dee, someone else named "anonymous," and Charles Banks.
We'd like to do some reporting, too. We went around Ben Bradley's place the other day, talked to some random strangers on the street, a few of the surrounding restaurants and such. Some waitress named Alice said Ben's a horrible tipper, 8% tops. John doesn't know Ben, but thinks that people on the block don't pick up after their dogs enough and if Ben owns a dog, he's probably one of the biggest offenders of all. Anonymous says that Ben is a dud in the sack.
See? Completely unbiased reporting by SCC and fully sourced, just like Channel 7 does.
We'd like to do some reporting, too. We went around Ben Bradley's place the other day, talked to some random strangers on the street, a few of the surrounding restaurants and such. Some waitress named Alice said Ben's a horrible tipper, 8% tops. John doesn't know Ben, but thinks that people on the block don't pick up after their dogs enough and if Ben owns a dog, he's probably one of the biggest offenders of all. Anonymous says that Ben is a dud in the sack.
See? Completely unbiased reporting by SCC and fully sourced, just like Channel 7 does.
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