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(11-03-2020, 07:02 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Yes, it could be any of those things.  But the fact that we don't know does not mean it should not be reported in the news.  It really happened and it really concerned some of the homeowners.  They were not concerned  because some journalist reported it.  They were concerned because it happened.

So I don't see what was wrong with reporting on it.

There's nothing wrong with reporting it.

But there IS something wrong with reporting it as if it were known to be a threat towards them and then trying to loosely relate it to a completely unrelated horrible situation where 1 disturbed individual sent 1 threatening piece of mail in Maryland.

That's when it crossed the line from reporting an incident to creating their own facts, drawing their own conclusions, and then sensationalizing it. That's not reporting news anymore but fearmongering.