As we have noted so many times previously, the Lexington Herald-Leader follows the McClatchy Mugshot Policy and does not print the photos of accused criminals. Lexington teen accused of attacking his mom is charged in shooting that blinded child By Jeremy Chisenhall | July 22, 2021 | 11:19 AM | Updated: July 22, 2021 | […]
We noted, two weeks ago, that the Lexington Herald-Leader declined to publish the mugshots of two murder suspects on the lam. Naturally, The First Street Journal found the mugshots, and yes, we published them! Well, we are happy to report that Danzell Cruse, the death of 38-year-old Jocko Green, has been apprehended: Man apprehended in […]
We noted, just three weeks ago, that the City of Brotherly Love’s terrible homicide rate had topped the entire year’s total for 2013 and 2014: According to the Philadelphia Police Department’s Current Crime Statistics page, as of the end of Tuesday, June 15th, the city hit what could wryly be called a milestone, it’s 250th murder. The […]
We have noted, many times, how the Lexington Herald-Leader has eschewed publishing the photographs of criminal suspects who are black, but have not been so reticent when it comes to those who are white. County jailer in Eastern Kentucky charged with DUI By Liz Moomey | June 22, 2021 | 9:20 AM EDT Carter County […]
Well, I didn’t have to wait long! Journolism[1]The spelling ‘journolist’ comes from JournoList, an email list of 400 influential and politically liberal journalists, the exposure of which called into question their objectivity. I use the term … Continue reading at its finest! After posting, at 7:42 AM this morning, on the Lexington Herald-Leader eschewing posting the […]
As we have previously reported, the professional media can get very, very upset when other professional media members report things that do not fit Teh Narrative. Admittedly, I was using the professional media in Philadelphia as my focus, as I frequently express my interest in our nation’s sixth-largest city. But it isn’t just Philly, as […]
As always, I checked the Philadelphia Police Department’s Current Crime Statistics page on Monday morning, and it tells me that, as of 11:59 PM EST on Sunday, January 23, 2022, 37 souls had been sent untimely to their eternal rewards. IT also tells me that ‘only’ 36 people were murdered in the city’s streets on […]
It is well known by both of this website’s regular readers that I like to cite newspapers as my sources. Part of the reason is that I am mostly deaf; I simply don’t get my news from television, because it is much easier for me to read the news than listen to it. And newspapers […]
It was just ten days ago that we reported that Lexington had tied it’s then-record of 30 homicides recorded in 2019, a record rewritten with 34 killings in 2020. Alas! that number 30 didn’t last for long. The Lexington Herald-Leader reported a 9:50 PM Monday assault in the Victorian Square Parking Garage at 350 West […]