Milwaukee, WI—I guess the reporters in this town were all
off enjoying their Sunday at Home. A mass shooting at a Sikh Temple is apparently not worthy of any meaningful attempt at reporting. Other
than a few video and photojournalists that captured some material the media had
nothing. The reporting was limited interviews
of a few on scene Sikh worshipers with more questions of their own than
answers.
This important news story was totally produced and reported
by police spokesmen! There were simply
weak rewrites of what officials reported rather than anything resembling
enterprising efforts to explain this important story.
The media failed to notice the suspect’s vehicle that’s
surely been towed by police. That would
have been an important thing to do. Getting the owner’s name and examining various
court record and government databases was an overlooked must.
The police quickly raided a residence in nearby Cudahy and the media
could have gotten names of residents to investigate. They could have found plenty of people to
help them build a profile of the dead suspect.
Local law enforcement quickly labeled the incident as
“Domestic Terrorism” but weren’t pressed for any information or details that
would justify that moniker.
The American media has forgotten how to do their jobs. I guess we must wait for the obligatory ABC
News, Brian Ross report to tell us that the Tea Party was behind the killings.
Have journalists been muzzled by government and intimidated into not reporting news?
