[Mpls] Mpls Pedestrian Killed

[Anne McCandless]

Why is it automatically believed that  because the Strib didn't write that an investigation was conducted, than the police must not have done one?   Is it possible that the Strib just didn't  include that info because of lack of space or they didn't think the story important enough to go into much detail?    Perhaps the attention given to stories is not based on police interest but on the newspaper's interest.  For example, two children are killed by abusive custodians.  One is a poor child in Minneapolis, the other a child in the suburbs, living in an expensive home.  The newsmedia are 'shocked' by the death of the suburban child and days are spent following up the story.  Hardly any media time is spent on the poor child's death and within a day, it is not even mentioned.   Later, the results from a police perspective.....the judge in the suburban case has let the suspect leave the country without charges, which again gets allot of media attention.  The two suspected killers of the poor child are charged and sitting in jail awaiting trial, which gets a small story in the back of the Metro section.  In both cases,  the police have done the best investigations possible.    Stories about poor people don't sell newspapers.  Until journalists are made to swear the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, don't believe everything you read.   Anne McCandless    Jordan