In his blog, Chronicle reader representative James Campbell discusses his paper’s policy on reporting the race of criminal suspects, and he raises several good points, particularly about the practicality of it all. However, this is the line that really caught my eye:

Readers sometime forget, the Chronicle’s writers and editors are citizens, too, and are as concerned about public safety as our neighbors.

It’s not hard to forget.

Just in the last few months, the Chron’s editors have written off Ellington Field’s F-16s as useless, ignored the seriousness of MetroRail’s damage to buildings’ foundations in the medical center, declared that an innocent man "stands a good chance" of being imprisoned, slammed longer sentences for child molesters, and overlooked HPD’s plan to buy $700,000 of gold badges while the department is short of officers.

Come on, James. I was born at night, but it wasn’t last night.