Adam Tuss of NBC News, Washington said his team got a hold of the top five bus lines for Farah Vasian last year. The police called them more like, hey, we're thinking about cracking down on this and we want to press your lawmakers. It's just seen as per se, this moral outrage that, oh my God, all these people are stealing fares. Of course, you cannot steal fares; it's like stealing, you know, water or oxygen. Anyone who lives in the greater DCR is meaningless, right? You have two weeks to go find me a victim of fair theft.
In this public News Brief, "DC Media's 'Fare Evasion' Meltdown," we discuss local TV news, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal's breathless coverage of so-called "fare evasion" and how our media decides which theft to care about and which to ignore.