Triumph: Since she took it down, I guess I can post this...
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I think that even Miss Manners would agree that was the proper response to that twunt.

Wow, I thought this had to be hyperbole. I didn't actually expect her to be so blatant with it, nor to double down like she did. Impressive level of disconnect from her job and her humanity.

You mean to tell me that a reporter used a popular web-based medium to request an interview from someone? YE GODS! KILL HER!
Seriously, off your farking soapboxes. They run it because you seek it.

"Do you want us to wait until the police and the government releases that information?" Schneider asked. "I can't believe that's the kind of country you want to live in."

Actually I would like to live in the sort of world where friends and families of victims are notified of their loss by the guys on the ground first and not hounded for a story by ghouls like you.

Eat a dick indeed.

Knucklepopper: You mean to tell me that a reporter used a popular web-based medium to request an interview from someone? YE GODS! KILL HER!
Seriously, off your farking soapboxes. They run it because you seek it.

I do not seek it. Not in my name. Idiots seek it and it is never a good idea to validate something based on the desires of idiots.

If it bleeds it leads. We have no one to blame but ourselves.

When they run out of details to report, they just show pictures of the victims with sad music (for the 1000th time) and start interviewing the local news photographer.

Knucklepopper: You mean to tell me that a reporter used a popular web-based medium to request an interview from someone? YE GODS! KILL HER!
Seriously, off your farking soapboxes. They run it because you seek it.

No, people wanted to know if kids got out safely, if there was still a second gunman on the loose etc. Info the police have provided without the need for reporters.

Not "So your cousin was shot point blank several times, how do you feel?"

I had no idea what a POS rag the DailyCaller is!
The tea baggers couldn't blame Obama or bring up Libya fast enough...

Highly refined HeryDerp!

dready zim: Knucklepopper: You mean to tell me that a reporter used a popular web-based medium to request an interview from someone? YE GODS! KILL HER!
Seriously, off your farking soapboxes. They run it because you seek it.

I do not seek it. Not in my name. Idiots seek it and it is never a good idea to validate something based on the desires of idiots.

You may think you're somehow exceptional, but really you're not. Your mere presence here shows that. This is a website where the foibles and follies of humanity load up the page by the minute. I doubt you're here to share cooking recipes.

I agree with the person quoted in the story: the producer should indeed eat a dick.

If any interested farkers would care to read a balanced and well written article (from a Canadian point of view - CBC) here's an article by Neil MacDonald.
Just for interest sake, Neil MacDonald is the brother of comedian Norm MacDonald (Saturday Night Live) and is an excellent reporter.

I'm damn disappointed in the fark modmin who has a personal vendetta against me. I've posted articles over the past month and not one green light. I do take it personally, and I take it as an insult to farkers who have been robbed of the chance of reading a great article like the one I've posted.

Luck everyone. My deepest condolences to those who've been affected by this tragedy.

If a first hand child witness gave an interview, America would lap it up......aside from the atrocity, where is does the real evil lie?

hbk72777: Knucklepopper: You mean to tell me that a reporter used a popular web-based medium to request an interview from someone? YE GODS! KILL HER!
Seriously, off your farking soapboxes. They run it because you seek it.

No, people wanted to know if kids got out safely, if there was still a second gunman on the loose etc. Info the police have provided without the need for reporters.

Not "So your cousin was shot point blank several times, how do you feel?"

Actually, people want all of it. There are ways to do the story delicately, and for the most part, reporters act respectfully. That usually goes ignored; no big surprise when dealing with the myopic view of Crowd-Rage. Cue the ancedotal evidence!

Freedom of speech and Freedom of the press does not mean freedom from the consequences of acting like a dickbag.

Knucklepopper: dready zim: Knucklepopper: You mean to tell me that a reporter used a popular web-based medium to request an interview from someone? YE GODS! KILL HER!
Seriously, off your farking soapboxes. They run it because you seek it.

I do not seek it. Not in my name. Idiots seek it and it is never a good idea to validate something based on the desires of idiots.

You may think you're somehow exceptional, but really you're not. Your mere presence here shows that. This is a website where the foibles and follies of humanity load up the page by the minute. I doubt you're here to share cooking recipes.

There you go again attributing things to me. I do not seek it. Can you read those words?

They run it because idiots seek it.

Wait, I`m repeating myself.

I`m out of this thread. I`ve said what I wanted to.

/foibles and follies are not the same as ghoulishly hounding victims of a mass murder.

indarwinsshadow: If any interested farkers would care to read a balanced and well written article (from a Canadian point of view - CBC) here's an article by Neil MacDonald.
Just for interest sake, Neil MacDonald is the brother of comedian Norm MacDonald (Saturday Night Live) and is an excellent reporter.

Spare me the hand-wringing. If your buddy there were such a great reporter, he would have mentioned the goddamned shooting that just happened in that goddamned country. With a semi-automatic CZ-858 rifle, no less. Jesus Christ, man.

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"Do you want us to wait until the police and the government releases that information?" Schneider asked. "I can't believe that's the kind of country you want to live in."
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// Hot like his rage seething under his irritation

Why did my work interntet filter block that as "pron"?

/waiting to get a call from IS

"Do you want us to wait until the police and the government releases that information?" Schneider asked. "I can't believe that's the kind of country you want to live in."

Nah, I like the country where they name the brother of the shooter as the perp.

this went exactly how it had to.

people demand survivor testimony.
some producers with shiat jobs were therefore required to ask.
the blogs had to show how they are above the traditional media so they called said producers on it.
the producers' boss had to come up with some type of justification but couldn't say *but ratings* so came up with *so you are saying you would really prefer Goebbels?*
it really couldn't have gone any other way.

Know what would be awesome? If a couple of months from now, it's revealed that some less-than-scrupulous reporters from some less-than-scrupulous news agency hacked into the social media accounts of the victims' family and friends.

/that would farking rule
//sadly though it would be unlikely given the tremendous biatch-slap handed to Murdoch's empire

softshoes: "Do you want us to wait until the police and the government releases that information?" Schneider asked. "I can't believe that's the kind of country you want to live in."

Nah, I like the country where they name the brother of the shooter as the perp.

I guess you missed the part where it was law enforcement itself incorrectly telling the news agencies the shooter's name?

softshoes: "Do you want us to wait until the police and the government releases that information?" Schneider asked. "I can't believe that's the kind of country you want to live in."

Nah, I like the country where they name the brother of the shooter as the perp.

Richard Jewell waves hello.

germ78: Know what would be awesome? If a couple of months from now, it's revealed that some less-than-scrupulous reporters from some less-than-scrupulous news agency hacked into the social media accounts of the victims' family and friends.

/that would farking rule
//sadly though it would be unlikely given the tremendous biatch-slap handed to Murdoch's empire

why are you thinking about this right now? you may have a problem.

Nadine, if you are reading this, these threats are over the top and should stop. On the off chance that someone does make good on one, however, can I have the first interview with you?

Call me crazy but I don't think it was that bad. She identified herself in the tweet and it's her job to get the news. Like it or not, we all want to know more about tragedies and eat up the kind of interview she wanted. Blame society for creating the demand, if you want to blame someone.

Her "police state" quote is obviously stupid but I imagine at that point she was a little stressed by the (over-) reaction to the tweet.

I also find it kinda amusing that this person is now much more in the media spotlight than if the tweet had been simply ignored.

Prank Monkey: Why did my work interntet filter block that as "pron"?

/waiting to get a call from IS

Don't be silly. They don't have time to do that. Shiatty web filters, how do they wor.

relcec: germ78: Know what would be awesome? If a couple of months from now, it's revealed that some less-than-scrupulous reporters from some less-than-scrupulous news agency hacked into the social media accounts of the victims' family and friends.

/that would farking rule
//sadly though it would be unlikely given the tremendous biatch-slap handed to Murdoch's empire

why are you thinking about this right now? you may have a problem.

Sometimes my cynicism gets the better of me, but then again, our sensationalist, get the story before the facts media really needs a swift kick in the nards.

Yes, of course. How dare she attempt to do her job!
I guess when you all turned on the tv to find out the news that day you would have simply preferred no one commented on it out of respect for the dead.

indarwinsshadow: If any interested farkers would care to read a balanced and well written article (from a Canadian point of view - CBC) here's an article by Neil MacDonald.
Just for interest sake, Neil MacDonald is the brother of comedian Norm MacDonald (Saturday Night Live) and is an excellent reporter.

I'm damn disappointed in the fark modmin who has a personal vendetta against me. I've posted articles over the past month and not one green light. I do take it personally, and I take it as an insult to farkers who have been robbed of the chance of reading a great article like the one I've posted.

Luck everyone. My deepest condolences to those who've been affected by this tragedy.

Try paying for TotalFark and the green lights will soon follow.

germ78: relcec: germ78: Know what would be awesome? If a couple of months from now, it's revealed that some less-than-scrupulous reporters from some less-than-scrupulous news agency hacked into the social media accounts of the victims' family and friends.

/that would farking rule
//sadly though it would be unlikely given the tremendous biatch-slap handed to Murdoch's empire

why are you thinking about this right now? you may have a problem.

Sometimes my cynicism gets the better of me, but then again, our sensationalist, get the story before the facts media really needs a swift kick in the nards.


I'm a cynic myself, but think about it.
you were in the midst of contemplating the worst tragedy in America since 911, just a few days old, and the role of media in our rationalization of it and suddenly what pops into your head is fox news and hope that they hack some the victims,
but then you realize it probably won't happen and are a little let down by that thought.
time to step back a bit perhaps?

Triumph: Since she took it down, I guess I can post this...
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wow

scottydoesntknow: Jument: Blame society for creating the demand, if you want to blame someone.

I don't really think it's society, it's more the competitiveness of the news agencies. Back in the day you relied on (usually) one newspaper for your daily news and one or two news stations for nightly news, so there was no true rush to be the first to get facts out. Nowadays, every news agency is competing with every other news agency thanks to the internet.

Society didn't make her ask for an interview. It was the desire to scream "I GOT THE FIRST INTERVIEWS" for all the internet to see.

I'd betcha anything her boss expects her to use every means available to dig for those interviews, and that's why the boss was hyper defensive and throwing out the police state hyperbole and blaming the blogs for the vitriol coming from the public. if I as her boss I'd make her do it. how about that.

She's an opportunistic twunt who doesn't care at all about the feeligns of others, just so she could "get" her story and the attendant "fame" with it.

Therefore, "eat a dick" is too kind; it should be "gag and choke on a dick."

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doubled99: Yes, of course. How dare she attempt to do her job!
I guess when you all turned on the tv to find out the news that day you would have simply preferred no one commented on it out of respect for the dead.

Reporting what's happening is fine. Harassing broken people in the midst of the greatest tragedy one can experience in life just for ratings is not.

Those are two very different things.



She asked for an interview. That's not harrassment.
One of the goddamn teachers in the school that day was interviewed by CNN barely 5 hours later, and every network and every viewer fully enjoyed listening to her riveting, tearful account.

indarwinsshadow: I'm damn disappointed in the fark modmin who has a personal vendetta against me. I've posted articles over the past month and not one green light. I do take it personally, and I take it as an insult to farkers who have been robbed of the chance of reading a great article like the one I've posted.

Try writing funny headlines.

// I submitted this comment with a funnier headline

unfarkingbelievable: She's an opportunistic twunt who doesn't care at all about the feeligns of others, just so she could "get" her story and the attendant "fame" with it.

Therefore, "eat a dick" is too kind; it should be "gag and choke on a dick."

eat a dick is a fair response.
but if you are telling the entire universe about your bowel movement schedule, politely asking for an interview isn't rude either.

relcec: germ78: relcec: germ78: Know what would be awesome? If a couple of months from now, it's revealed that some less-than-scrupulous reporters from some less-than-scrupulous news agency hacked into the social media accounts of the victims' family and friends.

/that would farking rule
//sadly though it would be unlikely given the tremendous biatch-slap handed to Murdoch's empire

why are you thinking about this right now? you may have a problem.

Sometimes my cynicism gets the better of me, but then again, our sensationalist, get the story before the facts media really needs a swift kick in the nards.


I'm a cynic myself, but think about it.
you were in the midst of contemplating the worst tragedy in America since 911, just a few days old, and the role of media in our rationalization of it and suddenly what pops into your head is fox news and hope that they hack some the victims,
but then you realize it probably won't happen and are a little let down by that thought.
time to step back a bit perhaps?

I don't limit the poor scruples of the media to Fox News and other NewsCorp entities. In fact I have very low expectations for CNN since Jeff "be a leader in non-fiction programming" Zucker took over. The state of the media today is about selling your eyeballs to advertisers and the best way to do that is to get the story first instead of right.

However, I should judo-flip my cynicism in this case and realize that idiot media -is- getting its just desserts. And I will walk back my previous statement and admit it was an assholish statement that wasn't really thought through.

/did that slip through the filter, or does fark not do unicode?
//and yeah, this is one of those tragedies that leaves you emotionally spent

Shubailat?

Any chance that she might be related to Kumbaya?