08 October 2009
Pot, Kettle....
Over on the increasingly unreadable Houston Press Hair Balls blog, Rich Connelly departs from his usual KTRH-beat duties to criticize.... the Waco Tribune?
Yes, the dreck he is criticizing is truly dreck.
But given the amount of amateur and semi-professional dreck that regularly appears on the Hair Balls blog*, are they really in any position to offer up credible media criticism of anyone?
It's hard to take it all that seriously, especially given recent Press journalistic misadventures involving Connelly and his wife.
Then again, it's not about being taken seriously at Hair Balls these days. The edict from Village Voice, we hear, is just to crank out the content in an effort to generate pageviews. Indeed, it's not all that different from the Chron.commons approach. Very corporate. Not very alt. And honestly, not very compelling.
UPDATE: Banjo Jones notes that there is some credible media criticism taking place in town.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 10/08/09 10:29 PM |
24 September 2009
KHOU's Greenblatt scores Emmy for stories on HPD homicide misreporting
KHOU-11's Mark Greenblatt just won an Emmy for his investigative series on HPD's homicide misreporting.
Recall that city officials once tried to smear Greenblatt for his reporting, before conceding his points.
Congratulations to Greenblatt for a job well done! The KHOU-11 press release is below.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/24/09 09:55 PM |
16 September 2009
TV news elaborates on recent print stories
On Sunday, the Chronicle broke the news that area taxpayers might have to bail out the Sports Authority, despite repeated promises that such a thing could NEVER happen. In a followup blog post, Anne Linehan pointed out Gene Locke's connection to the Sports Authority. Yesterday, KTRK-13 followed up on how the news might affect the mayoral race. Chron.com's Houston Politics blog called attention to the KTRK story today (while noting that it failed to credit the Chronicle's reporting).
Way back on 2 September, the Houston Press posted that a change in UH's book-loan policy was forcing students to buy books at the offical university bookstore, as opposed to the off-campus College Store. Today, KTRK went to the campus to report further on the change. We can't say we're THAT surprised that the university would funnel book-loan proceeds towards its own bookstore.
In other news, we're pretty sure print media reported the mayoral candidates all exclaimed "me too!" at some gathering or another, and TV media presented audio/video confirmation of the "me too!" moments. But we're too lazy to track down those links tonight.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/16/09 11:00 PM |
22 August 2009
Local headlines page added
We've replaced our old, outdated Chron headlines page with a local news page.
The page pulls headlines from the major news outlets in town via RSS feeds.
We've tested it in newer browsers, and everything mostly seems to be working (there's a random garbage character here and there that we can't seem to kill). Let us know if we've missed a local news organization that you'd like to see added (provided it has an RSS feed).
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/22/09 09:47 PM |
05 August 2009
Just a few tidbits on some METRO "olds" from July...
Turning to a bit of "olds" that has been in the bH blogging queue for a while now...
Readers probably will recall the story that Stephen Dean broke for KPRC-2 a couple of Fridays ago (July 24), on the indicted METRO VP. Here is an excerpt:
A Fort Bend County grand jury indicted William Murphy Madison, 44, of Houston, on charges of online solicitation of a minor, and he was arraigned before a district judge in Richmond this week.
[snip]
Metro has suspended Madison without pay from his $136,000 per year job, where was hired in 2007 as Associate Vice President of Infrastructure and New Initiatives.
The Chronicle finally managed to cover this story the following Monday (July 27). Here is an excerpt from Dale Lezon's reporting:
William Murphy Madison recently was indicted by a Fort Bend County grand jury for online solicitation of a minor, said Sgt. Dwayne Williams, of the Missouri City Police Department.
Williams said the department began investigating the case in September 2007 after a woman alerted authorities that she had found inappropriate images in e-mails on her 16-year-old son's computer.
Metro spokeswoman Raequel Roberts said that Madison, who had worked for the agency since September 2007 and had the title of associate vice president, was suspended without pay the day he was arrested pending the outcome of the investigation.
Notice anything missing? Okay, the bolded text gives it away: Neither of these two stories, several days apart, gave hard dates.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/05/09 12:46 PM |
06 July 2009
A most curious omission in the news
Friday afternoon, Rorschach, Royko, and I, plus who knows how many other blogHOUSTON regulars made our way, singly or in groups, to a little park near the George R. Brown Convention Center. Nary a hobo was in sight, but there were thousands of other people celebrating the Fourth a day early by telling their elected officials to take a hike.
Most people were sensible enough to set up under the trees to either side, leaving the center of the field empty until the sun hid behind buildings. HPD put the attendance at around 6,000 -- which, given the 102-degree heat and lack of fireworks, was just amazing. But last night, I noticed a most curious thing, while looking for news about the tea party.
There wasn't any.
Chron.com: Two articles on Cornyn getting booed at the SouthFork tea party, one was from the AP.
KHOU: No mention of tea parties
KPRC: No mention of tea parties
KTRK: No mention of tea parties
Fox26: No mention of tea parties
Plenty of stories about the loser who choked his son with a chain, Whacko Jacko, the guy who leaped from I-45... but not a thing about 6,000 people getting together in the hottest part of the day to protest the direction of their government.
Pravda means Truth, comrade.
Posted by Ubu Roi @ 07/06/09 09:40 AM |
21 June 2009
1560 The Game cracks Top Ten for morning drive
The Chronicle's David Barron reports that relatively young sports talker KGOW-1560 continues to show some impressive growth:
Mild surprise No. 1: For the first time since August 2008, one of Houston’s four all-sports radio stations cracked the top-10 in morning drive among men ages 25-54, according to Arbitron.
Mild surprise No. 2: For the first time in the Arbitron portable people meter era, two all-sports stations are in the top-10 in morning drive for men 25-54.
Mild surprise No. 3: The top sports station ranked seventh in the demo last month, the best ranking since an eighth-place finish for the segment leader in October 2007.
By now, it’s no surprise that the aforementioned No. 7 station last month is KGOW (1560 AM). KILT (610 AM) checked in at No. 10 in the morning drive demo.
Arbitron’s copyright interpretation prohibits the use of specific share numbers for the men’s 25-54 demo, but it is fair to note that KGOW more than doubled its morning drive share in May when compared to April, beating KILT by more than a point. KNFC (97.5 FM) was third and KBME (790 AM) was fourth.
In other dayparts, KILT ranks 11th in the demo for middays (10 a.m.-3 p.m.), leading KGOW by more than a point. KILT also leads KGOW by more than a point in afternoon drive (3-7 p.m.) and ranks 13th among all stations. KILT ranked ninth in evenings, thanks, no doubt, to Rockets basketball, and also leads in the weeklong 6 a.m.-midnight numbers in men 25-54.
For a young startup radio station that many people didn't even expect to be around by mid-2009, that's some really impressive growth.
At a time when other local media organizations are shrinking or churning much content from other parts of the empire and cheap/free bloggers, it's nice to see an independent commercial media outfit focusing almost exclusively on the local scene and its loyal audience -- and flourishing. Good job, 1560 The Game!
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 06/21/09 02:39 PM |
28 May 2009
Before interpreting legal cases, we recommend reading them carefully
We finally found a little time to read Judge Sim Lake's thorough, meticulously crafted decision on the redistricting lawsuit brought against the City of Houston by Vidal Martinez and Carroll Robinson.
If you haven't had a chance, it's really worth the read, first for historical purposes (there is some excellent background on Houston and Texas as related to the Voting Rights act) and second because it truly is a meticulously crafted, well argued refusal to stretch the Voting Rights Act and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments beyond reasonable limits.
Unfortunately, if you read Bradley Olson's coverage for the Chronicle instead of the decision itself, you got a much different interpretation of the case:
The lawsuit argued the city was violating its own charter by refusing to redistrict and add two council districts when its population passed the 2.1 million threshhold in late 2006.
U.S. District Judge Sim Lake rejected that contention, finding the plaintiffs had failed to show the city’s charter compelled redistricting.
Two sentences, two dead-wrong assertions.
The lawsuit argued for relief under the Voting Rights Act and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, not the City Charter per se. And Judge Lake rejected those arguments, without the need to reach any judgment on the requirements of the City Charter itself.
Don't believe my interpretation? Fine. Here's Judge Lake, on pages 7-8 of the opinion:
The plaintiffs do not allege that they are entitled to relief based on a violation of the City Charter, nor do they ask this court to order the City to comply with its Charter. The plaintiffs' claims for relief are instead based only on alleged violations of rights secured by federal statutes and the federal Constitution.
Judge Lake rejected those claims on federal grounds, of course, dismissing the case.
Olson apparently isn't the only local journalist who didn't read the decision carefully. Ann Raber at Texas Watchdog offered this strange assessment:
Federal District Judge Sim Lake’s decision hinged on the need for an official, accurate count of the population and demographic information.
No it didn't.
When interpreting legal cases, there's really no substitute for reading extra carefully (or perhaps just reading in the first place). Otherwise, silly preventable errors can result.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 05/28/09 11:29 PM |
18 May 2009
Favorite headline of the day
One doesn't see a headline like this every day, even in the big city:
Everyone can use a helping hand from time to time.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 05/18/09 10:31 PM |
17 May 2009
A little exercise in compare and contrast -- local media edition
The Chronicle's indispensable Metro columnist Rick Casey is unhappy because a local citizen ran for commissioner of Harris County Emergency Services District No. 9, and won the seat. Casey's unhappiness stems from low election turnout, and the local citizen's belief that God led her to run for the position.
Compare that withering column to KPRC-2's recent multi-part investigation of Harris County Emergency Services District No. 1, detailing an exclusive contract the agency had with a private, for-profit helicopter company:
For the last 14 months, a private for-profit PHI helicopter has transported patients to hospitals in and around Houston, working exclusively for the nonprofit government agency Emergency Services District 1.
Anytime ESD 1 paramedics decided a patient needed to fly to a hospital instead of taking a ground ambulance, ESD 1 would dispatch PHI.
In 2007, before ESD 1 signed the contract with PHI, the district only airlifted 12 patients in the entire year. In 2008, after ESD 1 signed the deal with the air medical company, it transported 106 patients. That’s a 783% increase.PHI made its money by directly billing and collecting from the patients it flew.
In one case, an accident victim was transported by helicopter to the hospital, released several hours later having suffered no major injuries, and received a $12,000 bill from the helicopter company. An ambulance bill would have been under $1,000. After Channel 2's investigation, HCESD 1 ended its exclusive contract with the private helicopter company.
When the Chronicle talks about "tenacious, watchdog journalism," it's a safe bet Casey isn't included.
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 05/17/09 01:01 PM |
05 May 2009
Here's an easy one
KTRK-13's Ted Oberg asks, "Did we overreact to swine flu threat?"
Yes.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 05/05/09 09:52 PM |
03 May 2009
Hey, never mind about that flu pandemic
Here's a headline on Chron.com:
Dire warnings were premature, experts suggest
When the World Health Organization raised its swine flu threat level last week to suggest the first pandemic in more than four decades was imminent, the group’s director warned that “all of humanity is under threat.”
Across the country, it’s looked like that. School closings will keep more than 300,000 Texas students at home this week. Stores have sold out of masks that experts don’t recommend. Sports events and concerts have been canceled. Headlines have warned that “Outbreak Threatens Global Recovery.”
By the week’s end, an increasing number of experts were questioning whether it was overreaction.
“I don’t see anything to justify this panic,” said Robert Krug, a flu researcher at the University of Texas in Austin. “From all the evidence, this doesn’t look like a particularly lethal virus. People need a little more perspective.”
Great. Thanks a lot, hysterical media. This news will surely disappoint one Chron editor who found the swine flu a source of happiness in her otherwise (apparently) dull life:
The swine flu panic has had an unintended consequence, but not an unexpected one. It has made people a little happy. Now I am not making light of death, especially a toddler's death, but really, we are all a little in love with anything that takes us out of our daily lives.
Normal people are not made "happy" by the swine flu, and normal people have daily lives that are fulfilling enough, thank you very much.
Meanwhile, if a student has the H1N1 virus strain, the federal government is forcing school districts to shut down affected schools for two weeks. TWO WEEKS! At the end of the school year. For the FLU!
Every year the CDC estimates 36,000 Americans die from the flu, but do schools shut down for two weeks every winter whenever a child gets sick? Of course not.
But it has given the media something new to cover wall-to-wall for a couple of weeks, and it brought some happiness to a Chron editor's life.
BLOGVERSATION: Trent Seibert.
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 05/03/09 08:24 AM |
28 April 2009
We can be such a pain
Journalists love online public databases, which allow them to look into all sorts of relationships (status with the comptroller of public accounts, political donations, property tax assessments, etc).
Of course, there's nothing to stop non-journalists from checking out those same databases, and sometimes it can be interesting to throw names into those sorts of databases and see what pops up.
So, that's a little background to set up my finally getting a chance to read last week's Houston Press story* on alleged sudden-acceleration problems with the Toyota Prius**.
The story leads with complaints about the car from one Bobette Riner, who apparently has an arbitration case pending over the car. That name seemed familiar, and sure enough it popped up in a few past Houston Press pieces. Plugging it into a few more searches turned up a shared address with Richard Connelly. The longtime Houston Press staffer.
No relationship was mentioned in the story, which seemed liked a glaring omission, so I emailed the author of the story. A comical series of emails followed, which the Houston Press Hair Balls blog rushed to document here yesterday. PLEASE go read Rich Connelly's fine account and come back. We'll wait.
I didn't take offense at the Press editor's email*** (really mild, to be honest), but was still a little confused at the notion that the relationship "probably" should have been disclosed. This is hardly a great scandal (or even a minor one really), but it should have been disclosed, if only to keep people who can be "a pain" from nagging about why a consumer advocacy report wouldn't disclose such a relationship. The publication's onetime media critic concedes as much in the comments at that entertaining post at Hair Balls:
I can only address the last question. My wife had the unintended-acceleration problem and found other people on the web who said they had also experienced it.
I brought up the idea at one of our weekly story meetings, saying it might be worth it for someone to look into.
I then had nothing to do with the story until I read it after the issue hit the streets. And I assumed the connection would have been in it, and it should have been, and from what I can tell it would have been if anyone had thought of it.
Right. It's surprising professional journalists overlooked making that connection in a story that ran across so many Village Voice corporate "alt" weeklies, but mistakes happen. We will now move on to being a pain (but less of a pain than this commenter!) on other topics.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 04/28/09 11:06 PM |
09 April 2009
HairBalls broadens the media-crit beat!
Richard Connelly, who once had a serious media-criticism column for the Houston Press, lately has been reduced to lamenting all the conservative talk on KTRH-740 on the publication's Hair Balls blog (as an aside, some degree of irony came today, when another blogger rewrote a Glenn Beck segment for Hair Balls, and more irony is provided by his publication's advertisements for amateur food and politics bloggers for THEIR blogs).
Now, Connelly has apparently added Chron.com conservative bloggers to the "beat" (such as it is), finding one of Dwight Silverman's handpicked poliblogger stars less than convincing.
As Cory Crow notes, Dwight Silverman's star political bloggers on the left apparently are not part of the new beat.
We are perplexed as to why any of this is serious fodder for a (one-time) media critic, or why he wouldn't just find more interesting media to consume if it's so off-putting.
Sadly, there was a time when Connelly would have skewered the Chronicle for running a Washington Post story about a local data center -- and that would likely have been a fun read. Then again, the Village Voice family has gotten pretty bad about "repackaging" content these days (compare and contrast a Miami Village Voice writer's feature on Stanford Financial Group), so maybe it's best not to go there. Besides, amateur blogger Laurence Simon seems to have covered it pretty well, although it's worth adding that the WaPo version is about 300 words longer. It must be nice having a real newspaper in one's town (or a good alt-weekly or two, for that matter).
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 04/09/09 10:13 PM |
31 March 2009
Giff Nielsen has (almost) left the building
Tonight is KHOU-11 sports director Giff Nielsen's last day on the job. The Chronicle's David Barron has more on Nielsen's departure:
As Gifford Nielsen prepares today to wrap up 31 years in two of the highest-profile positions any city can offer — six years as an NFL quarterback, 25 years as a television sportscaster – he reckons the same formula helped him endure in both career paths.
Nielsen, 54, announced Monday that he will resign as sports director at KHOU (Channel 11), effective today. His final appearances will be on today’s 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts.
He disclosed his decision after returning from a vacation break during which the station laid off its two sports producers, including lead producer Carleton Cole, who helped break Nielsen into the business in 1984.
“When you take away the sports producers, obviously there’s a different philosophy of how you’re going to cover sports and what you’re going to do,” he said. “The TV station has made a decision to do and to cover sports differently, and that’s something I’m not accustomed to.
Nielsen's certainly a fixture of Houston TV sports coverage, and it's a shame he felt the need to leave so abruptly. Here's wishing Nielsen well in his future endeavors.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 03/31/09 10:20 PM |
18 March 2009
Bring back the "Red, White and Blue"
The Chronicle has posted a story by political reporter Alan Bernstein that is a real head-shaker.
The quick synopsis is as follows: Following last November's elections, KUHT general manager John Hesse put the weekly Gary Polland/David Jones local political show "Red, White and Blue" on hiatus. Hesse apparently hopes to change the focus of the show to put more emphasis on guests, and even considered dropping hosts Polland and Jones, according to Bernstein. Both Democratic and Republican pols have urged KUHT to retain the hosts and the format. And Hesse has finally said he hopes to bring the show back, although the details still have not been finalized.
How in the world have KUHT and UH managed to screw this up so badly?
Granted, Polland and Jones aren't going to be winning any ratings wars. But their emphasis on local political issues and personalities is a great fit on noncommercial, public television (which isn't capturing many time slots in Houston, we'd wager). They run a smart show with good guests. And as Bernstein reports, they have fans ranging from Rep. Ted Poe to Rep. Al Green, who likely don't agree on many topics.
It's astounding that KUHT's general manager has let things degenerate to the point that it merits a story in the Chronicle and lobbying from Congresscritters. Just get the show back on the air already!
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 03/18/09 11:54 PM |
18 February 2009
Babe Pages/MOJO experiment fails; Chris Baker back to KPRC
Mike McGuff and the Radio-Info boards both posted an interesting press release from Clear Channel, which we'll post in its entirety and comment afterwards:
Houston gets a Morning Cup of Joe and a Good Baker
KPRC-AM Announces Chris Baker to Follow Joe ‘Pags’ Pagliarulo Starting March 2nd
Houston, Texas , February 17, 2009 –Beginning Monday, March 2nd, Houstonians will get an ever better cup of 9-5-0 Radio Mojo when Chris Baker returns to the airwaves on his hometown station KPRC-AM announced Eddie Martiny, President and Market Manager for Clear Channel Radio Houston. The Chris Baker show will air live from 3-5pm daily, while award winning Joe ‘Pags’ Pagliarulo will move to mornings to host “your Morning Cup of Joe” from 6-9am.
“Chris has a lot of fans in Houston, and he’s incredibly talented. We are excited to bring him back to Houston, back to the same station and time slot in which he began on-air over eight years ago,” said Michael Berry, Operations Director for Clear Channel Radio Houston’s AM stations. “With Walton & Johnson moving up the dial to the Arrow, 93.7 FM, the morning show slot opened on The 9-5-0. ‘Pags’ was the perfect choice for the mornings. If ‘Pags’ can appear on Fox News Channel, CNN, Headline News, CNBC and fill in for Glen Beck, we know he will be the perfect cup-of morning Joe for Houston.” added Berry.
Joe ‘Pags has been honored with multiple AP and broadcast association awards of excellence, and has been ranked among the most influential talk show hosts in America. Chris Baker is a stand-up comic who has been making Houstonians laugh for years, but he also makes them think. Houston loves his brand of talk and humor, and Clear Channel is looking forward to his listeners responding to his message.
The new KPRC-AM 9-5-0 Radio Mojo line up will be:
Morning Cup of Joe with Joe ‘Pags’ Pagliarulo 6a-9a
Michael Garfield 9a-11a
Outlaw Dave 11a-1p
Dave Ramsey Show 1p-3p
The Chris Baker Show 3p-5p
The Michael Savage Show 5p-8pKPRC-AM is the first radio station in Texas, originally broadcasting in 1925. KPRC-AM’s legendary TalkRadio format transitioned to “guytalk” in July of 2007. With the exciting move of ‘Pags’ to the mornings and the addition of Baker and the station will retain the popular Radio Mojo format.
Retain the popular Radio Mojo format? This "new" lineup would seem to be confirmation that the Babe Pages/Radio Mojo approach has been an unmitigated disaster, since this lineup looks hardly anything like the original lineup.
The new lineup isn't bad, although we don't really understand why the nation's fourth largest city gets a non-local talker from San Antonio (Joe Pags) in the morning drive slot of a once-great station (for that matter, we don't understand why the Houston Chronicle has outsourced its UT and Texas A&M sports coverage to the San Antonio newspaper, but that's slightly off topic). And Michael Garfield's previous non-weekend stints have not always been examples of good radio, but at least he's local.
The Chronicle's David Barron couldn't secure a quote from Baker (Advantage: blogHOUSTON), but did manage to get this out of Michael "Babe Pages" Berry:
“Chris did not leave (Houston) because of performance issues, but to pursue other opportunities and over disagreements during contract negotiations,” said Michael Berry, AM operations director for Clear Channel’s Houston stations. “With a talented talk-show host, just as with a professional athlete, sometimes these differences occur.
“We did not want to lose him, and we have wanted him back since the day he left. This move accomplishes that. This is Chris Baker’s radio home.”
Everyone who follows Houston media knows that Chris Baker was terminated (despite his ratings, which were stellar) and that Michael Berry had a hand in it. As a political scientist, I expect politicians (and ex-politicians) to lie, and lie frequently, so I guess it shouldn't surprise me when Berry does what pols and ex-pols do. But let's just say I find it distasteful, and leave it at that.
Thank goodness we can all say goodbye to that dreadful Babe Pages/Radio Mojo experiment on KPRC (whether anyone at Clear Channel will admit it). They have so damaged that radio station in a short time that it may never return to its past glory, but getting Baker back where he belongs is a good first step.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 02/18/09 11:02 PM |
16 February 2009
Texas Watchdog is looking for a metro reporter
The Chronicle may be in the midst of its latest downsizing, but not everybody in the news biz is shrinking.
Texas Watchdog, the local watchdog journalism outfit, is looking to add a metro reporter. Here's the ad from JournalismJobs.com:
Company: Texas Watchdog
Position: Seeking Houston political reporter
Location: Houston, Texas
Job Status: Full-time
[snip]
Description: We’re Texas Watchdog, a news Web site that covers state and local government. We’re looking for an experienced enterprise reporter to cover Houston politics. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a firm understanding of public records law and will have a passion for freedom of information, government transparency and getting the goods on politicians and bureaucrats gone bad. The reporter will break news through writing enterprise and investigative pieces, as well as blog for www.texaswatchdog.org. Knowledge of Houston political players is a must. Do you have video and multimedia chops? That would be a plus.
When: Hire date targeted for April.
Where: Houston, Texas.
Learn more: www.texaswatchdog.org
Please send a cover letter and clips to Deputy Editor Jennifer Peebles at [email protected]
We know journos of all sorts read the little blog, so if you know anybody who might fit the bill, please point 'em towards Texas Watchdog. A city can never have enough (paid) metro reporters chasing stories!
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 02/16/09 08:55 PM |
11 February 2009
KHOU's Desel returns to the newsroom after health scare
The Chronicle's David Barron has a nice profile today on KHOU-11 reporter Jeremy Desel, who is back to work after a health scare that involved heart surgery back in December.
It's good to hear he's making a full recovery, and also good for Houston news consumers that he's back to work. But take it easy for a little while, guy, okay?
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 02/11/09 09:49 AM |
23 January 2009
Chron Froot Loops Bureau comeback in '09?
The Houston Chronicle's Froot Loops bureau makes a rare appearance today:
Homicide detectives are still investigating an overnight shooting in which a resident of a north Houston apartment said he disarmed a burglar and killed him with his own gun.
The shooting occurred about 10 a.m. Thursday at the Worthington Apartments at 1350 Greens Parkway, KHOU Channel 11 reported.
We have missed the Froot Loops Bureau!
Here's the actual link to the KHOU story, since the Bureau apparently isn't a fan of hyperlinks.
UPDATE: Upon re-reading, we are confused. Was the shooting overnight, was the shooting at 10 a.m. Thursday, or was the shooting this morning?
Perhaps the Froot Loops staffer needs to have more coffee with the cereal.
UPDATE 2: On the KHOU video report, Rosa Flores says the break-in occurred about 10 o'clock last night, the owners got home at some point, and the struggle/shooting ensued then.
UPDATE 3: The Chron story has been updated to reflect a 10 pm shooting. It apparently has not been updated with a reporter verifying facts from police and witnesses and reporting those, instead of "reporting" the TV news.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/23/09 11:03 AM |
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