SAN ANGELO, TX – The driver of an SUV escaped injury when her vehicle plunged off the roadway on Ben Ficklin Rd. under S. Bryant Blvd. and into the Concho River Friday morning.
The SUV apparently left the roadway and plunged into the Concho River.
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Police radio reports indicate officers helped the driver out of the vehicle.
Reporters on the scene say they secured the vehicle with a rope so it wouldn't go any further into the water.
Officers called for a tow truck which pulled the SUV to safety.
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So let me see if I understand, an SUV operated by a probable female driver "apparently" left the roadway, and "apparently" ended up in the Concho River. That is all the information you can provide to the story? Why did you put it out? What information did you bring to your readers? I wish the SanAngeloLive staff would ask themselves, "What is this story giving to my readers?" How do you know the driver escaped injuries? What was the condition of the driver? Are you assuming that because medical staff was not requested at scene, the driver was fine? Did the driver get taken to medical care via personal vehicle? Were drugs or alcohol suspected? Thank you.
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PermalinkWhile I tend to agree that terms 'apparently and allegedly' seem to be used far too often in journalism, they do so in order to cover their behinds in case the accusation(s) are proven false. But when a reporter arrives on a scene controlled by law enforcement, said reporter is at the mercy of those officers concerning what information they can glean.
Every Journalism 101 course teaches about the 5 Ws. Who, what, when, where, and why, the necessary questions that need to be answered in any good news story. However, when the cops turn the information faucet to a trickle, some of those W's are not always provided.
Is it really all that important anyway?
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PermalinkYou guys ... Slack off of old Yantis a little. He's too busy trying to find out of town news articles and then trying to write click-bait headlines to the stories on those articles to get viewers to click on them thinking it's something local that has happened......
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