The lead Morning Call article about the police incident at Sacred Heart Hospital changed its tune and subtitle as yesterday progressed. In the earlier version, they quoted an expert on police use of force, who stated that the officers did nothing wrong.
In the next version of the story they featured a local black professor, who criticized the police for wanting to control the man, rather than treat his apparent illness. It seems to me that this professor has his policemen and doctors mixed up. The opinion of the policing expert is still in the article, but now at the end, beyond the attention span of many readers.
I cannot recall an article which changed its tune so drastically. I cannot help but wonder if the progression was organic because of the additional expert, or editorially the paper decided it was unfashionable to side with the police.
Tonight Allentown City Council will be besieged by those invested against the police, hopefully council will defend our blue line.
picture of upcoming book by professor quoted in Morning Call article
The same mob that will descend on city council tonight were the same ones that pressured the Call to rewrite its reporting. Like any other mob some of those demanding change through intimidation, threats, and brute force are well dressed and highly educated. There are a few responsible people on the council but certainly they don't make up a majority.
ReplyDeleteI just read a different, glowing article on the Black Lives Matter coalition of groups in the Lehigh Valley.
ReplyDeleteOne group was notably missing - the Democrat Socialists of America - which was reported by this blog as being the sponsor of the recent BLM Rose Garden rally.
Perhaps MM should contact the reporter to inform her, although I suspect that it was not an innocent omission.
As they say, what they don't print is often as telling as what they do.