The weekly newspaper that I criticized in my last entry for failing to check with police before referring to a local homicide as a possible hate crime has published a follow-up story in its latest edition.
The headline: "Searching for a break: Police say no evidence of hate crime in East Kingston homicide."
Gee, ya think?
The same headline could have been written a week earlier if the paper had bothered to check with authorities before simply repeating unsubstantiated speculation.
I hope the paper has learned its lesson about jumping to conclusions without first checking the facts.
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