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The Tip of the Iceberg
The main reason for this, in the early stages of a case following an arrest, is not to compromise the prosecution's case. But even later on, after the case has been concluded and a conviction gained, many details of a case frequently never become public knowledge.
I remember one particular case, where an older main had inexplicably murdered his employer after decades as a law abiding citizen. The man was a lifelong bachelor and had kept quietly to himself up until the night of the crime, never even having had a traffic ticket.
The account of this case in the paper, published right after the murder, shed no light on what could have possibly motivated this man to commit this crime. And, as is usual in cases like these, the victim was portrayed as being a near-saint that everyone in the community had loved.
However, those of us at the police department knew quite a few more details that were never released to the general public that allowed us to make better sense of what had happened. First of all, the victim was far from being loved by "everyone who knew her". Though she didn't deserve to die as she did, she was hardly a saint.
She was a difficult women whom we'd dealt with before on previous disputes. And more pertinent to this case, she and her killer had been lovers. They'd had sex the night she was killed and he had proposed to her. Her reaction was to laugh at him, telling him she'd never marry a man like him; that he was a loser. Apparently, this caused him to snap, and he killed her in a fit of rage.
This was but one of many cases I had knowledge of where nothing even approaching the entire story was ever told in the newspaper.
Now, I take what I read in the paper with a large grain of salt, knowing that in most cases that there is a lot more to the "rest of the story".
I must agree with you. I have been on Television in the newspaper on the
News and the next morning What I read was not even what happened, so to
have this experience makes me mind my business when I see something in the
street and they want to speak to the eyewitness because you just may read
that you were the one who committed the crime. I hear you on this one.
Let's also not forget that the purpose of a newspaper is certainly NOT to
report the news. At minimum, the purpose is to sell papers. Most likely
the purpose is to sell advertising. We often get advertising disguised as
news.
Even if they have a tape recorder they can put a twist on what you say. In
the article written about us, we got a good chuckle over the part she wrote
that I “rock the dogs in a rocking chair and read to them” what I had told
her was that there is a rocking chair in the basement for ME. I sit in it
and read (to myself), while the dogs get adjusted to their new environment.
My husband is still getting grief over the part that says “there is only
room in our king size bed for so many people and dogs” (I told her about
the night her own dog stayed here and I fell asleep with my 3 dogs and her
dog in bed while watching hockey. Hubby came in and said there wasn’t
enough room for him so somebody had to leave). Now his buddies playfully
tease him that we are ‘swingers’ and want to know what the max capacity of
our bed is!
I learned this in spades. I'm still dumbfounded when people ask me about
the dreaded "Trench Coat Mafia." They see a gang of Keanu Reeves
look-alikes, not a tiny group of computer geeks who barely knew they boys
they were supposed to have been good friends with. Sooo much of what
people think they know is a mile off the mark.
