Letters to the Editor
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You mention he's a convicted felon in the SIXTH paragraph?
And you do it almost as an aside? Oh, by the way, when he filed the lawsuit, he was a convicted rapist...
The headline is, "Alleged hostage taker filed molestation suit." Then the first five paragraphs are dedicated to the salacious details of a lawsuit filed by someone with a long history of mental illness, who just strapped road flares to himself, pretended to have a bomb, and took hostages. Does that give you any clues about his credibility? (And by the way, I agree with a previous letter writer -- no one is "molested" at 21.)
Then, in almost Columbo-esque fashion, in paragraph six, you mention almost on the way out the door that he's a convicted rapist.
I have no idea if this guy's suit had any merit, but logic--and the fact that absolutely nothing came of it, which is not the case with similar lawsuits--indicates that it's at the very least pretty dodgy. His felony conviction, on the other hand, is an actual -- oh, what's the word I'm looking for? -- FACT.
Yeesh!! How ironic that one of the headlines to the side of the story was Glenn Greenwald's piece about Michael Cooper demonstrating what real reporting is. Now if only someone could teach that to War Room...