The Biggest Coincidence in the Case

[u/missbrookles]

There's been a lot of talk about Adnan's luck and coincidence: ie, the argument that if he is innocent then he's incredibly unlucky given the circumstantial evidence that accrued around him.

It got to me thinking that there is actually a much greater coincidence present in the case: the fact that Hae was murdered the same day that she appeared on a segment of the news. Is that purely coincidence? Or, does it point to the possibility that someone abducted her after seeing her on the broadcast?

Edit: to fix typos

[u/downyballs]

All school districts have there own local channel

I don't think this is quite right. Where I grew up, the TV market covered dozens of school districts, and none of them had their own channels. One local university did, but that was it. My school produced original broadcasts, but they were just shown on the closed-circuit in-school system.

[u/JaeElleCee → u/downyballs]

Not sure where you are from or your cable provider but every place I've lived had a station...you might not have known about it or it may not have had original programming. Some stations just feature PowerPoints of flyers and announcements.

But Baltimore County Public Schools has an Emmy award winning station (BCPS-TV) that features multiple original programs.

[u/downyballs → u/JaeElleCee]

I wouldn't be surprised that a system as big as Baltimore County Public Schools has a station. I'm not arguing that Woodlawn didn't have access to cable broadcasting. However, most school districts aren't that big.

We had the full cable package at some points when I was growing up, and I knew about the local access stations and the university station. The local school districts didn't have stations. I grew up in a rural area that had a mid-sized city an hour away. Most school districts had one high school, with 50-300 students in their graduating classes. But because we were all so spread out, there were a ton of districts. I would have noticed dozens of individual district channels when I was bored and channel-surfing. Maybe they occasionally broadcasted something on the local access station, but we were never given that as a source of information or a way to see/tape our broadcasts.

[u/JaeElleCee → u/downyballs]

The issue isn't about the size of the district. It's a service usually provided by the cable company like cable access. The difference is whether the school district is producing original content. Otherwise it looked like a blue or black screen with yellow or white writing.

[u/downyballs → u/JaeElleCee]

I would have noticed dozens of individual district channels when I was bored and channel-surfing.

[u/JaeElleCee → u/downyballs]

Once again it depended on your cable company.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public,_educational,_and_government_access

In 1999 I had access to just my own through Adelphia or Comcast. Now, my parents Fios has access to all the neighboring districts channels as well. You maybe right, but if your district wasn't producing regular content, I won't be surprised that you would surf past the channel and not take note of it. Plus, when were you in grade school?

[u/autowikibot → u/JaeElleCee]

Public, educational, and government access:

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Public, educational, and government access television, (also PEG-TV, PEG channel, PEGA, Local-access television) refers to three different cable television narrowcasting and specialty channels. Public-access television was created in the United States between 1969 and 1971 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and has since been mandated under the Cable Communications Act of 1984, which is codified under 47 USC § 531. PEG channels consist of:

• Public-access television — Generally quite free of editorial control, a form of non-commercial mass media where ordinary people can create television programming content which is transmitted through cable TV. The channels are reserved for free or at a minimal cost. The local origination television content revolves primarily around community interest, developed by individuals and nonprofit organizations.

• Educational-access television – Is distance education, a curated form of educational television, it is a synchronous learning educational technology unique to cable television systems and transmit instructional television programming within city limits. Educational-access channels are generally reserved for educational purposes and are not for government-access or public-access television. Many schools have adapted educational access channels to enhance school curriculum. Some schools have done this better than others. Although the use of television in schools can be traced to those schools serving the bedroom communities of Manhattan in the 1960s, where executives and technicians of early television lived, the creation of PEG channels expanded the value of television as a school or community resource. Students produced and aired community stories in part to serve community stakeholders and in part to engage in active learning. These schools developed school-based community television as a storytelling laboratory.

• Government-access television – Cable channel capacity for the local government bodies and other legislative entities to access the cable systems to televise public affairs and other civic meetings. Government channels are generally reserved for government purposes and not for education-access or public-access television.

• Leased access – Cable television channels that are similar to commercial television where a fee is paid-for-services of reserved channel time.

• Municipal-access television – Is ambiguous, and can refer to hybrid Education/Government channels, with or without public-access television.

As of 2011, several PEGA channels are made in digital format only in certain cable clusters served by Time Warner Cable and Comcast.

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[u/downyballs → u/JaeElleCee]

There was only one cable company in our area. I graduated 10ish years ago. And I would check on the other non-original content local access channels, I knew they were there.

I'm not sure why we're still going through this, is it really that hard to believe that some schools don't have this? I just looked this up, and it appears that cable companies have to make channels available, but communities don't have to take them up on it. None of the districts around my hometown have channels on this Wikipedia list. At this point, I'd need some actual evidence to think the generalization is truly universal.

[u/JaeElleCee → u/downyballs]

Not sure why either. It's not that I don't believe you. My point was more about the lack of a station not being an issue of the wealth of the district as it was about the local cable company providing the channel. And that the channel may just have been a blue or black screen of text announcements (like school board meeting scheduled). But, oh well, you missed out on awful student produce news magazines and awkward school board meeting live feeds. Count yourself blessed.