Follow-up

[sleigh]

A follow-up: the LA Times is reporting today that the authorities in Maryland are saying that it wasn't his novels that caused Patrick McLaw to be removed from school and sent for "mental evaluation" but some mysterious four-page letter he sent to Dorchester County officials. This doesn't answer the question why this is the first time we're hearing about this letter and why all the initial reports claimed it was the novels that were the concern.

It rather reminds me of the Ferguson authorities changing their story when the initial narrative caused an uproar...

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[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

The authorities in question are in Maryland, not Massachusetts. Specifically, they're on the Eastern Shore. That fact may be germane here. The Eastern Shore is heavily "conservative". The white-supremacist, anti-gay, gung-ho extreme Republican type of "conservative".

In addition to the question you ask, I also want to know why the authorities there are talking to the LA Times, way on the other side of the country, rather than to nearby media outlets. The Baltimore Sun, which is probably the biggest nearby newspaper is reporting on what the LA Times was told, not on what they were told themselves.

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

Oops... You're right; I'll make that correction. And yep, I too was wondering why a news outlet on the other coast was doing the follow-up to this and not someone much more local.