Front page with photo and lead article on web site with photo is an article describing the arrest of a Lancaster youth for exchanging drugs with someone who then later died of an overdose from using a variety of drugs.
WATCHDOG: Were this young man not the son of a prominent local official, it isn’t even likely that the report would have made a back page. And if this person was not related to an official, he may not even have been charged and, if tried and convicted, he would receive a suspended sentence with the opportunity to purge the felony from the record in two years for good behavior.
This isn’t about the father; this is about the son. The son is not a public figure. So why is this unfortunate event given such prominence?
Is this fair, is this decent, is this ethical?
Some of us believe that editors have a responsibility beyond selling newspapers.
Had this been a son of a prominent Democratic official; chances are that the left-leaning LNP would have ignored it all together.