[Scan-DC] TV reports of Wolf Blitzer SWATing incident

[Brooks, Kurt]

If you get wording like that across the board it typically comes from the press release or news conference. The police said it. Tech terms are not coined by reporters. 

On Apr 29, 2013, at 22:11, "Jeff Krauss" <jeff at krauss.ws> wrote:

> How is it that two different local TV station reports of the Wolf 
> Blitzer SWATing incident say that "police responded Code 1 with 
> lights and sirens"?
> Montgomery County police have never used the term "Code 1."
> Years ago it used to be "Code 3" but now they say "Priority Response".
> But I heard that report on both Fox and NBC.
> How did this happen?  Did one station make it up and the other was a copy cat?
> 
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