Printer Friendly
Email to a Friend
Enlarge Font
Decrease Font
All rights reserved. This copyrighted material may not be published, broadcast or redistributed in any manner.
Get $150+ in coupons in every Sunday N&O. Click here for convenient home delivery.
Story Tools
More A Opinion
Most Popular
Last 24 Hours
Last 7 Days
Last 24 Hours
Last 7 Days
Advertisements
I was surprised to see the addresses of the six people arrested for allegedly trespassing in U.S. Rep. David Price's office printed in the Feb. 17 N&O. It seems strange to me to publish the addresses of those arrested for a misdemeanor charge. Not only that, trespassing certainly is not a charge which makes these people dangerous to the community in any way.It also seems strange to me that much of the article was taken up with the addresses of the six arrested, while relatively little information about the circumstances of the arrests was included.I noticed that in two Feb. 20 articles dealing with criminal proceedings ("Man accused of assaulting woman" [about a Wake Forest case] and "Mom's 'missile' was cup of ice" [an Associated Press story from Virginia]), no addresses were listed -- despite the fact that these crimes are far more serious than trespassing.I can think of no reason other than sheer harassment and intimidation value for your printing the addresses of those arrested at Price's office, which does not seem to me like something of interest to a reputable newspaper like The N&O.Steve MilderChapel Hill
No comments have been posted for this story. Log in to be the first to comment.
The News & Observer is pleased to be able to offer its users the opportunity to make comments and hold conversations online. However, the interactive nature of the internet makes it impracticable for our staff to monitor each and every posting.
Since The News & Observer does not control user submitted statements, we cannot promise that readers will not occasionally find offensive or inaccurate comments posted on our website. In addition, we remind anyone interested in making an online comment that responsibility for statements posted lies with the person submitting the comment, not The News and Observer.
If you find a comment offensive, clicking on the exclamation icon will flag the comment for review by the administrators, we are counting on the good judgment of all our readers to help us.
