Yesterday morning, a man is robbed and beaten/kicked to the point that he is in critical condition- with serious head injuries.
This happened right in downtown Seattle early Saturday morning, October 26. The victim refused to hand over his backpack to his attackers.
This should be of concern to every Seattleite. Not just robbery, but the kind of physical violence that is life-traumatizing.
And the Seattle Times does not even consider this worthy of coverage.
I guess this is what the editors and publisher consider "being responsible to the local community."
A man teetering on the brink of death is worth mentioning.
Citizens have a right to know. And the primary purpose of a newspaper is to inform them.
Newspapers have no right to withhold news from the public.*
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And the Times wants people to subscribe to its online edition.
Don't go for it.
Go to http://kirotv.com instead for local news, as the Seattle Times won't provide it.
http://www.kirotv.com/ne…
I won't wade into what I consider the politically reactionary views expressed by the publisher on the editorial page over the past decade.
This happened right in downtown Seattle early Saturday morning, October 26. The victim refused to hand over his backpack to his attackers.
This should be of concern to every Seattleite. Not just robbery, but the kind of physical violence that is life-traumatizing.
And the Seattle Times does not even consider this worthy of coverage.
I guess this is what the editors and publisher consider "being responsible to the local community."
A man teetering on the brink of death is worth mentioning.
Citizens have a right to know. And the primary purpose of a newspaper is to inform them.
Newspapers have no right to withhold news from the public.*
* * * * *
And the Times wants people to subscribe to its online edition.
Don't go for it.
Go to http://kirotv.com instead for local news, as the Seattle Times won't provide it.
http://www.kirotv.com/ne…
I won't wade into what I consider the politically reactionary views expressed by the publisher on the editorial page over the past decade.
* To be fair to the Seattle Times, The Stranger, in its crusade to include incidents of white-on-black violence (as as gay-bashing) across the 50 states and to promote African-American culture, of course, did not consider this much more-closer-to-home news as worthy of coverage, either.
The policy of The Stranger, even more than at the Times, is to not report black-on-white or black-on-Asian violence, only white-on-black (police "brutality").
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