Missing in Action at The Boston Globe
Todays Globe and all of Boston.com for that matter contains not a word about this person. Jeanne Assam.
Who is she? Some might find her newsworthy. She saved scores of lives yesterday. How did she do it?
With her legally owned Gun.
That’s strike 1 if you’re keeping score for the Globe.
And she praised God for giving her the strength to gun down the scumbag who was shooting up her church.
God?? Strike 2 for the Globies.
She’s a single woman, apparently not gay nor a feminist.
Steeeerike 3!!! She’s out of the paper!!!
Fortunately you can read all about Jeanne by doing a quick Google News search which as of 11:00 AM Tuesday pulls up 726 hits.
The Boston Herald does better. At least they took time out from inserting annoying ads on their web site to include a pretty long AP story which identifies Jeanne as the “security guard” who ended the carnage by shooting the gunman.
Of course any story where a Gun is used in self defense is a “non-story” as far as the Boston Globe is concerned. The Globe has a long history of ignoring those stories.
One that comes immediately to mind was a mid-day shooting in Davis Square Sommerville. The shooting victim ran from the scene and jumped on the Subway. The Police tracked him from his blood trail and stopped the train in Cambridge, pulled him off the train and placed him under arrest.
That sounds like a wild scene. A bleeding man running through yuppified Davis Square at 1:00 in the afternoon jumping on the T to avoid arrest. That would make a good episode of some police show.
The story was that a homeowner, home for lunch shot the perp after he broke into his house. The Perp had a history of burglaries but in the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts that still meant the homeowner was held for hours of questioning before he was released.
Surprisingly, this only made Page 2 of the Boston Herald. But at least it made it into the paper. Unsurprisingly, not a word was ever written about the incident in the Boston Globe.
Law abiding citizens defending themselves with legally owned Guns does not fit the Globe’s narrative.