Journalistic Misdemeanors
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Here was a story about a tragic horror, and somebody at The Post thought that it had to begin with some color:
"Phillip Garrett was passing time outside a neighbor's Calvert County home, smoking a cigarette, when he noticed a girl in pigtails wandering on the street. Her pink nightgown was caked with mud, her small body covered in bruises" ["Md. Mother Jailed After Bodies of 2 Children Found in Freezer," front page, Sept. 30].
Ludicrous. This story required getting right into it: "A Maryland woman was arrested when two children . . . ."
Either live up to your fine national reputation or be a tabloid -- not both. This type of amateurism occurs too often in your paper, causing me to incur the increased cost of having to subscribe to the New York Times.
-- Peter Kaminsky
Rockville
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Is there some reason you can't provide the date of the crime at the beginning of the article? In the Sept. 25 Metro article "Suspects Sought in Reported Abduction," we learn at the start, "The call came in at 7:53 a.m."
