Have you heard the one about...

[AliceTheCook]

a board op at the Carpenter Infinity studio getting busted recently for soliciting an underage girl in a chat room with the company computer? And the police raiding the place and confiscating the evidence? Kurt, can we talk about this publicly yet?

 

[edwardrmurrow]

> a board op at the Carpenter Infinity studio getting busted
> recently for soliciting an underage girl in a chat room with
> the company computer? And the police raiding the place and
> confiscating the evidence? Kurt, can we talk about this
> publicly yet?
>
The story you have just read is true,the names have been omitted to protect the innocent. daaaa da da da. Dallas, a city excited that the Cowboys are playing foorball again, and the extension of the George Bush Tollway is open. My name is Friday and I'm a cop.

 

[nuzguy]

> > a board op at the Carpenter Infinity studio getting busted
>
> > recently for soliciting an underage girl in a chat room
> with
> > the company computer? And the police raiding the place
> and
> > confiscating the evidence? Kurt, can we talk about this
> > publicly yet?
> >
> The story you have just read is true,the names have been
> omitted to protect the innocent. daaaa da da da. Dallas, a
> city excited that the Cowboys are playing foorball again,
> and the extension of the George Bush Tollway is open. My
> name is Friday and I'm a cop.

More appropriately: "There are 8 million stories in the Naked City. This has been one of them."
>

 

[KPLEXCOMPLEX]

More appropriately: "There are 8 million stories in the
> Naked City. This has been one of them."


OK. The news organizations went all out on that Denton County constable recently for doing the samething. Will one of them step to the plate,and check out this story then report it??? I bet it won't be KRLD/KTVT for sure.

 

[dean1]

Not to diminish the seriousness of the sitution for a minute, but there's a vast difference between a public official sworn to protect the public good engaging in predatory conduct and a board-op for a radio station doing the same thing. Sadly, many people in a variety of professions engage the same conduct and their stories never make the stack. Perhaps they should, in order to illustrate the breadth of the problem.

That said, I can assure you that if this individual case extands far enough or meets enough of the oddity/familiary/impact measurement, CBS-11 would not hesitate to rport it.

Case in point - WFAA reporting this past week on a DMN classifieds employee accused of engaging in identity theft. No reasonable person ever wants to report on one of his own, but sometimes we must.

> More appropriately: "There are 8 million stories in the
> > Naked City. This has been one of them."
>
>
> OK. The news organizations went all out on that Denton
> County constable recently for doing the samething. Will one
> of them step to the plate,and check out this story then
> report it??? I bet it won't be KRLD/KTVT for sure.
>

 

[KPLEXCOMPLEX]

> Case in point - WFAA reporting this past week on a DMN
> classifieds employee accused of engaging in identity theft.
> No reasonable person ever wants to report on one of his own,
> but sometimes we must.


Valid point Jody. WFAA did indeed report on one of their own,however the story I heard was FOX4 was getting ready to do the same,and WFAA wanted to make a preemptive strike,otherwise they would look bad for not reporting it.
In comparison between this board op and a public official,there is no difference,except occupations. The crime is a crime simply put. IF the board op story is true,it should recieve the same type of coverage as the constable and the DMN employee on his particular scam. I commend WFAA for waht they did,now let's see if the other stations can match it.