re: Apt Complex Requires Tenant To Remove US Flag - "Threat to Muslim Community"

Poor reporting job by Alice Barr.

She writes that he moved in "just a few days ago". If I'm a reporter, realizing how this story will be received by the viewers/readers, the first thing I'm asking him is to look at his copy of the lease. It's not like he could say he doesn't know where it is, since he just moved in, and one would think that he would have already checked the lease before agreeing to the interview. If the reporter did ask to see it, and he told her he didn't have a copy or couldn't find it, she should have stated that in her report. If he did have a copy, one would expect the reporter to comment on whether the flag display is specifically prohibited. And if it is, then she should have asked other tenants with patriotic items on display if anyone has ever said anything to them about their displayed items. Also, since Flag Day was just a few days earlier, were the other displays seen in the video clip leftover from that?

Just basic things one would expect a good reporter to mention in filing a report she knew would create controversy.

(For the the record, I have had a small 11'x16" American flag on my condo's front door since 9/11/01, so my feelings on displaying the flag have nothing to do with questioning the reporter's omission of very significant information.)