----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Lickness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 12:07 PM Subject: [Mpls] The power of the list
> I think the thing that I find most appealing about > this list is that the "opinions" go to this list > un-edited and un-filtered. > > The strib has significant filters at work in what gets > printed and the story that gets told is from that of > the reporter or editors point of view I would go further than saying the news is filtered. It's also lacking in basic analysis. This morning, for example, I read an article in the Strib's Metro section happily announcing an increase in the number of drug busts in the Minneapolis area over the last three months. Yet the police, as well as the reporter, seemed to be at a loss to explain why this sudden run of unanticipated good luck in apprehending dealers and their significant stockpiles of cash, weapons, and drugs. Is the Strib, as well as the police, so utterly lacking in even a rudimentary sense of economics to recognize an obvious correlation between an economic recession and an increase in drug crime? In fact, wouldn't they anticipate an increase flow in drug trafficking? Certainly this is going to result in addiitonal drug busts. But why this lack of economic realism in crime reportage? More troubling, of course, is the bigger story this hints at. The reporter fails to make mention of whether there is a trend in increased drug flows and bigger busts in urban centers across the country. If so, that means more drugs are coming into the country. Would this not indicate breaks in our national security system? Any route for drugs is a route for terrorists. But again, there is no speculation about where these drugs are coming from. All we get is a final tally of pounds, kilos, dollars, and guns. Factoids. Chris Beckwith Ward 6 _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
