KATU’s Sloppiness With Missing Persons
As we all know, the mainstream media quite often can’t get their story straight, and they instead produce a bunch of journalism of varying quality. However, when dealing with missing persons, you’d think that their attempt to work in the public interest would at least inspire them to figure out the story before the send it out through their various publishing means…
KATU just published (at 1:04 PM today) this story about a missing 12 year old. Which is all well and good, except that he’d returned home 12 hours previously and was no longer missing. The O reported that several hours ago. I know it’s Sunday and all, but seriously… maybe KATU needs to start reading OregonLive to find out what’s going on.
Heh. I see that KATU’s sister station in Seattle has now posted the incorrect story as well: http://www.komotv.com/news/local/6072341.html
Heh… in an apparently quest to bork up the story even more, now KATU has a new story claiming the boy was found “Sunday afternoon” – http://www.katu.com/news/local/6074466.html
According to the press release from the county sheriff, the boy was located at 1:00AM.
I would give my right arm to have information posted “anywhere” about Cliff Emrson, the person missing in his daughters, mother and our family life since Halloween evening 2006. Our family has put up Missing Person posters all over Portland and Gresham only to go back a few days later and find them gone. While a few stores did post a flyer, the majority of stores and businesses where Cliff Emerson was a “good cunstomer” for years refused to post a flyer in their stores or placed them in areas where the public never sees them unless they need to use the restroom. The city tears down anything posted. Portland Police have listed him as missing but stated in the beginning that people go missing all the time and I’d be surprized how well a mentally ill person could function on the streets as a homeless person. This person was on medication that if not taken could be have fatal consequences. It is like looking for a needle in the haystack. We searched homeless shelters and homeless camps all over Portland. HIAPPA protects him from us knowing if he is hospitalized. We don’t think this is a possiblity as he is missing from a VA referrent. I am so frustrated. Like I said I would give my right arm to know if he is safe and well somewhere, anywhere.
I would give my right arm to have information posted “anywhere” about Cliff Emerson, the person missing in his daughters, mother and our family life since Halloween evening 2006. Our family has put up Missing Person posters all over Portland and Gresham only to go back a few days later and find them gone. While a few stores did post a flyer, the majority of stores and businesses where Cliff Emerson was a “good cunstomer” for years refused to post a flyer in their stores or placed them in areas where the public never sees them unless they need to use the restroom. The city tears down anything posted. Portland Police have listed him as missing but stated in the beginning that people go missing all the time and I’d be surprized how well a mentally ill person could function on the streets as a homeless person. This person was on medication that if not taken could be have fatal consequences. It is like looking for a needle in the haystack. We searched homeless shelters and homeless camps all over Portland. HIAPPA protects him from us knowing if he is hospitalized. We don’t think this is a possiblity as he is missing from a VA referrent. I am so frustrated. Like I said I would give my right arm to know if he is safe and well somewhere, anywhere.