When the dust settles,
The Journal Gazette will have to live with the fact that the
first paragraph of this morning’s story on-line strongly implies the peaceful
protest was interrupted and ruined only after those thug police officers showed
up and gassed the peaceful crowd. While the JG does give some lip service to
last night’s broken windows and vandalism, their photos, on-line, only show
protesters, their signs, and protesters with police. No broken windows, no
vandalism. Doesn’t fit their narrative, I guess.
WANE-15 will have to live with the fact that they heavily
promoted this event in news promos, made it their top story live, and treated
it like a promotion as opposed to news story. The only thing missing was the
phrase “bring the whole family, plenty of free parking, and free balloons for
the kids.
WPTA ABC21 will have to live with the fact that they made it all
about themselves, with their male anchor safe in the studio, and his wife and confused co-anchor on-scene. The male anchor even once saying "this is not about us". Maven calls Bullshit! While the lady was experiencing clouds of tear gas hubby continually asked her about her "feelings". Facts don't matter in TV, only "feelings". During the jerky and
haphazard live broadcast from approximately 9pm to 10pm, WPTA’s coverage seemed
to focus on the female anchor, who was clearly overwhelmed and confused even unable
to even identify the street/intersection they were broadcasting from. Why the "experienced" male anchor sat in the safely in a locked studio miles away and the seeming distraught female was placed in harms way, is a decision that WPTA ABC21 Quincy Communications will have to answer for. WPTA’s
fiasco last night has more than eclipsed their “active shooter at the Three Rivers
Festival” panic from a few years ago. While their newscasts may “save lives”,
apparently they did not save Jimmy John’s front window.
