A couple of weeks ago, Spectrum News in Buffalo made a baffling editorial decision that looks worse by the day because of events surrounding the controversial issue of how to fairly deal with asylum-seekers.
Spectrum News won’t comment on its decision to initially decline to cover the story of the asylum-seeker from Venezuela accused of raping a woman in front of a young child. Prosecutors said the suspect and the victim know each other.
An accusation of rape last week in a Cheektowaga hotel against an asylum-seeker from Venezuela has touched off a firestorm of criticism from Republicans who have been critical of Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz’s response to the migrant crisis.
All other local news outlets covered the story at the time.
Asked why Spectrum was an exception, a spokesman for the cable news channel said: “As a practice, we don’t discuss our editorial decision-making process.”
Spectrum eventually covered the continuing story when a second asylum-seeker was accused of a sex crime in Cheektowaga, leading Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz to halt allowing asylum seekers to come here from New York City.
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