Really? Then why didn't the correctional facility issue a press release? How the howling EFF is the media to know if not alerted? Do you want us calling every prison asking if anyone is locked up? Oh, wait, they wouldn't tell you because it's privileged info. Or do you want them to be psychic? Local News my left mammary gland. 😡

Tickle Trunk wrote:

Really? Then why didn't the correctional facility issue a press release? How the howling EFF is the media to know if not alerted? Do you want us calling every prison asking if anyone is locked up? Oh, wait, they wouldn't tell you because it's privileged info. Or do you want them to be psychic? Local News my left mammary gland. 😡

 papers used to have reporters on the crime beat. 

it's a little cheeky for a media outlet to be indignant that media outlets... including their own... failed to report it.  Invented outrage.

Regardless, according to this easily found Global News Article, not even the gov't was aware for days.

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Hansa is right about one thing - reporters used to have police sources that would tip them off when something significant was happening or they heard about an incident that was newsworthy. But now that there are fewer reporters and the relationship between media and police has changed, I'm guessing that happens a lot less often. 

I recall a story that Bill Blair (when he was still Toronto's police chief) told at Mark Dailey's funeral. When a major crime took place, like a murder or something equally sordid, the cops knew that every TV and radio station's assignment desk was listening in to their radio chatter. (They've since digitized most of those broadcasts and it's tough to monitor the police that way now.) Many of them spoke in a kind of code to try to stop the media from showing up. 

But Dailey had so many friends and was so plugged in with the cops that they would often say "Call Inspector 2" over the radio. Besides "The Voice," one of Mark's other nicknames was "The Inspector" and that secret moniker was designed to get him there first and give him an early exclusive on whatever the breaking crime story was.

I'm sure that still goes on, but times have changed and besides the odd Joe Warmington-type, I'm not sure anyone has those kinds of relationships anymore.

I was at the funeral and heard him say it. I was surprised by it, but had no reason to doubt him. It sounded like the kind of thing Mark would have been part of. It was confirmed to me by several people afterwards, so I'm pretty sure it was accurate. He just had the kind of relationship with the cops - a very valuable thing for a crime reporter. 

Unsure why anyone would doubt that Mark Dailey had outstanding police contacts. If you have friends on the police force in the city were you work then you have friends on the police force. I've had excellent personal relationships with different officers in several different cities including Toronto. Those police officers confided in me on more than one occasion. I was even invited along on an undercover operation one evening. I accepted the invite. All that has to happen is to have one cop befriend you.



















   

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