Yes, I’m paying good money to subscribe to The Philadelphia Inquirer, $5.49 per week, or $285.48 a year, so you’d think that that august journal, our nation’s third-oldest surviving daily newspaper, the winner of 20 Pulitzer Prizes, would do something really, really radical like report the news!
Well, I didn’t find this story in the Inquirer, but due to a tweet from Fox 29 News
Man charged in deadly ambush shooting of mother near crowded Philadelphia park, police say
Published July 27, 2023 11:00AM |Updated 12:04PM | Crime & Public Safety | FOX 29 Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA – Homicide detectives have made an arrest in the deadly shooting of a local mother gunned down in a parked car in Philadelphia earlier this week, police say.Alexander Grady, photo via Fox 29 News.
Note the date of the Fox 29 News article: it was initially reported at 11:00 AM on Thursday. That means that the Inquirer has had plenty of time to write its own story. But, as of 9:29 AM EDT on Friday, July 28th, there is absolutely nothing on this on either the Inky’s website main page or specific crime page.
Tina Arroyo, 32, was gunned down on Monday evening while sitting in the driver’s seat of a Honda Civic parked on the 500 block of East Louden Street, according to police.
“She pulled up on this scene and within moments another vehicle pulls up and shoots her,” Sgt. Eric Gripp said. “How quickly it happened and the callousness of all of it is deeply troubling.”
The shooting took place across the street from a crowded park, officials say.
On Thursday, police announced the arrest of 26-year-old Alexander Grady.
Grady has been charged with murder, criminal conspiracy, VUFA and related charges.
How can the newspaper be called a newspaper when it doesn’t report the news?
Another story that the Inky didn’t want to publish or investigate.
Chasing down the details would just give credence to the “Systemic Racism” that triggered the arrest of Mr. Grady. So, obviously, the poor man is really innocent, and there is no story to report. /s