Local TV news sucks, part 3
While watching the news this morning, there was a story about a murder in Hillsboro, which was actually Hillsboro’s first murder of the year. Just reporting the story would not have been nearly sensationalistic enough, so the reporter opened the story by saying “There is a killer on the loose in Hillsboro!” He then went on to explain that the victim had been killed sometime between Tuesday and Thursday evening. Keep in mind that Hillsboro is a small bedroom community west of Beaverton, which is a largish suburb west of Portland.
So, a person was killed, possibly as far back as three days ago, in a metropolitan area with 2+ million people in it, and the reporter confidently (and ignorantly) asserts that the murderer is still wandering around the scene of the crime.
2 comments March 18th, 2005