re: #105 Charles Johnson

Boston police have begged the media to stop reporting what they hear on scanners.

The thing about this one is, I was listening to the scanner all last night and I didn’t hear it. There are a reasonable number of people who likewise say they were listening to the scanner and didn’t hear it.

So a) not reporting things from the scanner seems good practice (I redacted names and addresses when posting anything last night) but also b) NOT FUCKING MAKING SHIT UP is also a good practice. It came from one guy’s Twitter that he heard it and people ran with it because supposedly he heard it on the scanner.