Last night, Fort Wayne Police worked an armed robbery at a convenience store. Typical, mundane news story, except for the fact that last night's robbery was preceded by three other convenience store robberies the previous night.
While the TV news reported the facts directly from the media handouts from FWPD, not one of the media outlets, at least not in their stories so far, have asked "are these robberies related"?
Why not? Simple. If the authorities didn't mention it in the handout they feed the media, the media is either too lazy or unintelligent to ask the logical question.
While the Maven may seem to be harsh on the local TV kids, at least they covered the story.
Not participating in reporting last night's armed robbery (according to their social media feeds) were WOWO radio, The Journal Gazette and the News Sentinel.
WANE - 15's story is here:
https://www.wane.com/news/local-news/police-looking-for-getgo-armed-robbery-suspect/
WPTA ABC21's story is here:
https://wpta21.com/news/crime/2019/11/14/fwpd-investigating-another-gas-station-armed-robbery/
Fort Wayne's NBC 21.2's story is here:
https://fortwaynesnbc.com/news/2019/11/14/man-gets-away-with-money-in-armed-robbery-at-gas-station/
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