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:
