The Carthage Press reports that Kaiser has been promoted to captain or assistant police chief:
Kaiser joined the department in 1995 as a patrolman. Kaiser served as a detective in the Jasper County Drug Task Force; as a patrol sergeant and currently is the lead investigator in charge of the Detective Division.
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The Carthage Press article contains that meaningless byline that I have criticized before and will continue to criticize- By Staff Reports. It was not By Staff Reports. Someone from the staff may have edited it a little bit. Someone from the staff may have typed it, but it was a news release, plain and simple. What in the world be wrong with just saying that?
I agree. There is nothing wrong with running an unbylined piece. Years ago, newspapers used to reserve bylines for special efforts by reporters. Nowadays, a three-inch story will have the reporter's byline, or have the dreaded "By Staff Reports." I hate it too.
ReplyDeletethey do it to keep Turner frustated and grumpy. you are getting old and full of "what used to be, Randy."
ReplyDeleteGet out of the house once in a while and pull the plug on your computer for a month or two.
Do we know who was passed up by chance? Just curious!
ReplyDeleteCongrats to Randee, a young man who has never been afraid of hard work. When he left journalism for criminal justice, I was a little skeptical about his career move (I envisioned him as a one-day ME or publisher) but he's done well. Again, congrats.
ReplyDeletePapers do that to make it look like they're doing work, when they're not.
ReplyDeleteToday's reporters do very little compared with those of 20 years ago.
They don't like to hear that but it's true. We live in a cut and past world.
The problem is the LACK OF INVESTIGATIVE reporting skills that many "respected" reporters show. They're used to being spoon-fed.
That's one reason why the media LOVED the beginning of the Iraq war. They got to be "embedded." They got to publish lots of news releases.
Beware stage management by P.R. departments.