A child is in critical condition, yet WANE-15 feels is necessary to go out of their way to tell us about the socio-economic condition of the neighborhood before telling us the details.
Here's the story from WANE - 15's website:
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A child is in critical condition after being pulled from a pond in the affluent Sycamore Hills neighborhood on Fort Wayne's southwest side.
First responders were called
around 1:45 p.m. to a pond just off Carnoustie Lane. Dispatchers
first told WANE 15 that a water rescue had been conducted there and the person
was out.
Later, dispatchers said the
victim was a child and was reportedly in critical condition.
The Maven may have missed a few stories, but does not recall reading about breaking news on Winter Street, for example, being called and economically-depressed neighborhood.
Is this a new newsroom policy or someone finding a way to include "affluence-shaming" as a political comment?
Here's the link to the story as this blog post is being written:
As if we didn't all know the socioeconomic status of Sycamore Hills... "We know you can't live here, but guess what happened..."
ReplyDeleteFWMM:
ReplyDelete..And while the media HAS to mention the socio-economic status (privilege?) of that area, they always take not to DOWNPLAY the garbage heap that has become the SE side (except when they tout a new addition to the ghetto.
Watch how long it take for prosperity Heights, Bottle Works and Renaissance Pointe to go down the toilet (thanks to crime).
Amazing how BIAS can be used in the media (and is).