MYFOX DC Keeps Perpetuating Bad Stereotypes About Southeast
Headline reads "7 injured in Southeast DC Shooting"
Problem is the shooting occurred in NORTHEAST.
Call it a typo call or a Freudian slip but this is the type of sloppy reporting that has added to Southeast DC having a bad (and often overexagerated) reputation as a place for violence. It's bad enough when local news stations refer to everything over the bridge as "Anacostia" but to post such a misleading and inaccurate headline is just poor reporting.
To send an email to Fox 5 and to ask them to please stop misreporting news about southeast (or as in this case news that did not occur in southeast) please click HERE. Also please let them know that Congress Heights is NOT located in Anacostia as they reported in their story last week on copperhead snakes bite two in SE.
Link to the shooting article can be found here: http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/dc/081709_7_injured_in_southeast_dc_shooting
Link to the copperhead article can be found here:
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/local/080509_coppperhead_snakes_bite_two_in_dc
Problem is the shooting occurred in NORTHEAST.
Call it a typo call or a Freudian slip but this is the type of sloppy reporting that has added to Southeast DC having a bad (and often overexagerated) reputation as a place for violence. It's bad enough when local news stations refer to everything over the bridge as "Anacostia" but to post such a misleading and inaccurate headline is just poor reporting.
To send an email to Fox 5 and to ask them to please stop misreporting news about southeast (or as in this case news that did not occur in southeast) please click HERE. Also please let them know that Congress Heights is NOT located in Anacostia as they reported in their story last week on copperhead snakes bite two in SE.
Link to the shooting article can be found here: http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/dc/081709_7_injured_in_southeast_dc_shooting
Link to the copperhead article can be found here:
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/local/080509_coppperhead_snakes_bite_two_in_dc