Posts Tagged ‘Winston Robinson’
Free Winston Robinson!
If you are a reporter with the cop beat, there is no story more loathsome than the cop-gets-transferred story. These stories are boring and usually filled with anonymous hand-wringing and inside-baseball org charts that in the end offer very little consequences for the average reader. The only people who care about police officials getting a transfer slip are other cops.
Write enough of these stories, and you will swear off the police beat. These stories will wreck you.
Bill Myers, a reporter for the Examiner, is the latest victim in the cop-transfer genre with his piece on Asst. Chief Winston Robinson's taking over the police academy in Blue Plains. Myers was saddled with this grabber headline: "Assistant Police Chief Named To Head Academy." Who the hell is going to read any further?
So Myers tried to juice his story with one ancient story and some dubious allegations that have gone unproven. What's his lead graph?
"D.C. police Assistant Chief Winston Robinson has been on the job for nearly 40 years. His behavior has caused him trouble for nearly as long."
I'm gonna call bullshit!
