CBC can't resist a slap across the river on fireworks day
Evidently, six years isn't long enough for a Statute of Limitations on cheap shots among neighbours:
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"The Windsor Riverfront Plaza has been a popular viewing location for both Canadians and Americans, particularly since 2004, when a man opened fire on a crowd gathered at Detroit's Hart Plaza on the waterfront, wounding nine people.
Not only does this gratuitous "information" appear today in a CBC News report, but it's in paragraph 7 of a 20-paragraph online article.
Must be the unnamed writer and editor, if any, figured that merits more prominent placement than details about Windsor street closings, free city buses, free shuttles and the weather forecast.
N a s t y.
Jaded? You betcha. Callousness? Not so fast . . .
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Lonyo exit
What jaded callousness to say let's just forget it.
Way to swerve sharply around the point, Lonyo. Careful you don't miss your exit.
Today's event preview at cbc.ca doesn't focus on unsolved mysteries, urban pathologies, police competence, uncooperative witnesses or victims' post-traumatic stress. All of those are real issues and worthy of journalistic inquiry.
Call me old-fashioned [[that's a you betcha, too), but I don't expect a cold case reminder to be shoehorned into a feature headlined Windsor-Detroit fireworks illuminate friendship and with these top paragraphs:
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The riverfront in Windsor, Ont., will be the site one of the most colourful, explosive celebrations of international friendship Monday, as a fireworks display draws hundreds of thousands to line both sides of the Canada-U.S. border.
The annual display of pyrotechnics high over the Detroit River began in 1959 and has become the event that unofficially marks the start of summer.
And come on now, Lonyo: Are you seriously suggesting the crime reference is a public service reminder that "six years later the shooter is free somewhere." Really? That's what you're going with -- this may be like the Green River Stranlger or Son of Sam?
He's been laying low for six years, but we shouldn't drop our vigilance?
Next you'll say CBC should have mentioned Cassandra and Cossondra Rutherford of 1991 fireworks night beat-down infamy. Too bad the Canadians didn't have space to dust off that one while advancing a riverside show designed to "illuminate friendship," eh?
Something happened last night
Trying to find mention in the press but can't find anything.
I was on a rooftop last night. Shortly after the fireworks ended nearly a dozen motorcycle cops came blaring down Randolph. At first I thought they were escorting a dignitary. When the spotlight copter came in, it became clear they were after somebody/somebodies. A herd of men, and assume-ably panicked bystanders, ran through the parking lot at Randolph and Lafayette. The officers stopped, circled and searched. And that was that. Anyone hear anything?