No need to put your valuables in a safe, citizens of West Chester.  You’ll be ok.  But anyone within the 275 loop is in imminent danger of being murdered.  Probably by a black person.

This past weekend was like an Easter basket filled with delicious junk news the Enquirer loves gobbling up:  metropolitan crime!  Minorities!  Guns!  Police running after criminals in broad daylight!  Shootings on and near landmarks (Findlay Market/Fountain Square)!

Naturally, the Enquirer went on a junk news binge.  These shootings deserve coverage, but just search for “Fountain Square shooting” on Enquirer.com and you’ll have your pick of 20+ stories.  Some are repeats from various Gannett properties but that’s…a lot.

Then comes this unchallenged quote from Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters.

“You cannot have this type of act in the city’s core.  You don’t see this in Times Square.”

Thus proving Joe Deters has never been to Times Square.

We’re just as guilty as anyone of sniping at the faults of this town.  But the Enquirer seems to openly take delight in painting Cincinnati as a war zone with this kind of coverage, this kind of quote, and the headline under which this quote ran: “Progress in city’s square, but safety fears return.”

Return?  Return for whom, exactly?  Another piece in the Enquirer said the day after the shooting was “business as usual” on Fountain Square.  What happened was terrible, and in the case of the teenager who pulled the gun, idiotic.  Not part of a pattern, though.  So if you’re going to use comment threads on momslikeme.com as a basis for “fears returning” to downtown, you really have no business running a newspaper.

Then again, this is the Enquirer we’re talking about.… Read the rest

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