Re: coverage of beatings

2001-01-06 Thread Andy Driscoll
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RE: coverage of beatings

2001-01-05 Thread Richard Chandler
Are you saying it's OK to bruise a bus driver as long as you don't smack his head hard enough to give him a concussion? I certainly hope riders assaulting the driver is not a commonplace occurrence on Minneapolis buses. If a reporter gets shoved, we hear about it for weeks, but the driver went

RE: coverage of beatings

2001-01-05 Thread Russell Wayne Peterson
Steve said (although I think these are the words of the Strib and not Steve's): "We rarely report routine beatings of anyone, much less drivers, and if we did, the newspaper would have room for little else." The fact that "routine beating" is actually a phrase we use and then say we don't have