But surely there is a public record of what was done in response to the death. I mean, it isn't like we either get it in the Star Tribune or we don't get it at all. Anybody feel like calling records downtown or calling 3rd precinct and just finding out the final disposition of the case?
Anne McCandless says "don't believe everything you read". Well, in this case the problem was there is NOTHING there to read, right? So, it would be more to the point that the Star Tribune is not a final authority on everything that happens. There are lazy people whose whole world consists of whatever the TV news director decided was "newsworthy". I think that's a pretty pathetic attitude. The truth is YOU see news that the commercial media will never know about. They form a narrow window on the world. Everything that doesn't show up in that world is available other ways. But if you want a larger slice of reality, you have to go hunting for it. Picking up the phone is one way. Sending email is, lately, another way. And if you find reliable information, there are also increasingly more ways to SHARE that so that other people don't have to be exclusively reliant on the Star Tribune or 'CCO or whatever. In fact, nowadays, in the backwash of Rodney King, we have thousands of camera people out there waiting to RECORD reality as it happens. I'm sorely tempted to get a video cam just for that reason. The fact is that it isn't financially possible for news media to have their equipment everywhere. But private camera owners have given us lots of immeidate exposure to events (as I recall, a lot of the footage on the WTC bombing was private). ===== ===== Jim Mork----Cooper Neighborhood "Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children of God"--Matthew 5:9 United for Peace http://www.unitedforpeace.org/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
