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E.D. is bringing up John Walsh to negate Chief Moose's comments that the media need to be more careful regarding their reporting and in particular the release of the tarot card as evidence. Her point is that it is through television/media that John Walsh's show has captured so many criminals. She has a point, but, the media is a good medium through which to release INFORMATION to the public versus releasing EVIDENCE (the tarot card) to the public.

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E.D. is bringing up John Walsh to negate Chief Moose's comments that the media need to be more careful regarding their reporting and in particular the release of the tarot card as evidence. Her point is that it is through television/media that John Walsh's show has captured so many criminals. She has a point, but, the media is a good medium through which to release INFORMATION to the public versus releasing EVIDENCE (the tarot card) to the public.

I think Edie was using Walsh as a cover. He's been successful in getting the word out about criminals and capturing them. However in this instance the media has released vital information that wasn't supposed to be given out and may have hampered the investigation. Walsh imo, would NEVER do that.

She seemed to be trying to defend the irresponsible behavior of the media by grabbing at Walsh's success as an excuse.

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The chief is absolutely RIGHT to be angry about information that they POLICE wish witheld being leaked to the general public by the press.

Not only does this represent a loss of control evidence to weed out the true confession from possibly thousands of FAKE confessions...I'm reminded of something else I read earlier this morning:

In Chechnya, the press indiscriminately printing dangerous information is responsible for the "loss" of an agent who was deeply placed in the al Qaeda network.

As has been demonstrated with this and many other cases (ESPECIALLY post-911) the press has caused numerous cases of public hysteria by being so intent on being the first to scoop that they don't wait to find out if what they're reporting is even remotely true!

The press needs to start acting responsibly.