Earlier today I castigated a local TV station for not publishing on their Web site the location of a home invasion robbery.
A few minutes ago I checked out the station’s site and saw that not only did they publish the block number and street name but they published the exact address.
This blog certainly does not take credit for KBMT Channel 12 doing the right thing. I checked out my Web site counter and found no evidence anyone from that station read my post. However, I did send the station a comment after reading the story this afternoon. And although my comment is missing from their site, along with any other comments, they did what they were supposed to do in the journalistic sense.
Did my comment to the station criticizing their choice not to expose where the crime took place play any part in their decision? Beats me. The point is that the station had the good sense to realize that readers and/or viewers have a vested interest in knowing details when stories affect them or might affect them.
Now I suppose someone will complain about the station giving in their news report the exact address of the crime scene rather than the street name or the street name and its hundred block. Oh well, that’s life in the big (and not so big) city.