More Gettin' medieval

Hat tip to reader Michael, who points out a lesser edited version of the Samurai store owners robbery defense. Here's the Minnesota Daily (Univ. of MN) story, "Armed robbers hit market near U". The differences between this version and the KSTP version show just how much the news is manipulated by the various levels of people who review it before it goes into print, i.e., the reporter, editors, etc. They make decision on how the story is written and compiled, how much of the story gets chopped, and how it's titled in the paper, and so on.

In this particular story, the large amount of cash is new information in the Daily, as opposed to KSTP. It's a big score in this case: over $8000. Interestingly, neither story printed good descriptions of the robbers.

Here's some particularly relevant information left out of the KSTP story:

“It’s getting worse here every day,” Hassuneh [victim] said about safety in the area. As he spoke, he soldered part of a gate that will now surround his business. “Now we are gating up and arming ourselves,” he said.