An Obscure, One-Time Report

18 October 2002

on Fox News this past Tuesday morning said that police had increased the number of sniper suspects getting round-the-clock surveillance from 6 to 10. Is it possible that someone in the four that were added has had to lay low?

Could it be that the sniper has no clue as to what the air surveillance technology really is capable of so he’s afraid to act?

Will his pattern change over the weekend?

In the blizzard of facts and fiction that fly from news sources we discover that reporters begin to quote each other following a press conference. If someone in the back asks a question that begins with, ”we’re getting reports that…,” every other reporter goes on TV saying ”some reports say…” and they quote whatever they’ve heard.

Too often the ”reports” unravel like a cheap sweater once a single snag is found in the original rumor.

Let’s hope and pray that by the time we head to work on Monday, some resolution of the D.C. area killings has been reached.

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