Looks like Fred Phelps is making the rounds all over the internet...not just here. Seems the church has riled off my friend over at The Bobo Files.
Why does tragedy happen? Who knows. God has a plan. However, I don't think the Westboro church or Fred Phelps is in on it.
As far as tragedy...and anyone benefiting off of it - The Danville Register & Bee holds the record. When did I finally have enough? When the Cunningham woman killed in a car versus pedestrian accident several months back was more important than the Ringgold Fire Dept.'s celebration. I was coming back to the paper with a great story about community, fire department volunteers and video of training and people learning how to help people and Bernard Baker got angry with me because I wasn't fast enough getting out to an accident scene of a fatality to "get a picture of the body."
"I heard she was a young girl," he kept saying...No. She was about my age. We had the press release and the info we needed, but then again...he wanted a photo. Of what? The same sort of scene that young Reid Ashe must have been been part of...hit by a car, fall from an airplane....sells newspapers. That was a Saturday. I was off Sunday and Monday and called in to work Tuesday.
The doctor said, "Post-traumatic stress"...that's another word for I can't take any more photos of bodies and blood and brains and fires and shootings so the newspaper can make money off of the suffering of people. Think about it. Quite a job wouldn't you say? It's not like you go out and shoot those things and come back and people are respectful and we write about the resources available for those suffering, or do something with the news that benefits the public. No. We just run story and a picture to sell papers. Kind of morbid don't you think?
Sorry Danville. I just couldn't keep showing up knowing we weren't about telling the family's story or helping...we were running photos of people's wrecks, fatalities and tragedy...all in the name of making an almighty dollar. How many times do I have to say it? I don't know. Probably as often as the paper runs the photos and stories of local stabbings and shootings and fires and wrecks. They can't do that enough - well, I can't get enough of pointing out the hostile atmosphere, the bullying, the abuse, the degrading of women and the manipulation of news and capitalizing on death and tragedy for a buck.
If you take comfort in knowing that your local newspaper wants you to die or at least be critically injured if you happen to be in an accident...then good for you.
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Monday, August 11, 2008
A life of its own....
Kang, not from the Simpsons...but a Simpson fan maybe? Thinks people enjoy reading this blog because they think I'm wacked....I published his comment below.
Odd...The Danville Register & Bee feeds off of tragically killed sons, daughters too, almost weekly...front page stuff. They even published their "own" tragically killed son of the Media General COO and gave it far more than the typical 15 inches. Why? Sells papers. They don't have a problem with milking the death of one their own's sons or the tragedy of other Danvillians but ($$$$ maker was it?) they don't want anyone else to say anything about it. But wait! A minister reads it and thinks maybe it's a curse because of a management team that seems to think infidelity, homosexuality and abusing/humilating women is funny.
Kang. You MUST be from the R&B. Hm....
What's wacked? A newspaper that thinks a male reporter filming the breasts of local businesswomen without their consent or knowledge....then showing it around the news room to management and laughing about it....or the people who object to it??
Have you seen the parachute video yet? Wow. What do you think? Funny as women being humiliated? Funny as people's lives being ruined? Funny as a drunk sports editor that can do no wrong - except for the 13 chargable offenses...3 DUI's, evading police, missing a DUI court case in Danville to attend another DUI case in NC the same day. Busy man.
Funny as families being devastated by layoffs they weren't warned about and being booted right before Christmas even? Of course not....but what's the difference between someone running that video of a parachutist splatting and The Danville Register & Bee running a picture of someone splatting? Hmmmm....Every time those sirens go off and the police scanner fires up Charles is almost hysterical with excitement - squealing like a little tea kettle - telling Darren someone's got to go get a picture of the fire, or the wreck - but ONLY if it involves tragedy, death or serious injury. Did you know that Danville? You have to be maimed or killed - not just in a wreck to be in the newspaper. Only real gore sells.
Did you ever think about how the family feels when reporters are out there taking photos of bodies that the paper will never use but that the newsroom will laugh over ...like they did the videos of the women Mac McLean filmed? Who's wacked? I'm not the one who chases every fire truck and ambulance to get the story on someone ELSES tragically killed son...different when it's someone you know - or whose father you knew eh?
Think of that next time you pass by a newspaper stand and there's a fire or wreck on the front page. You're making money off of other people's tragedies and don't think a second thing about it. Maybe NOW you know how it feels...no wait...you'll understand better once I find the video...because it WILL be posted. YouTube.com, Google or Faces of Death....
Why? Because I haven't heard an apology. The victims haven't heard an apology and all those involved in the humiliation of years of Register & Bee abuse - Those employees haven't heard an apology.
I don't know what it will take to get through your thick head...what the newspaper did and does do is not right. So don't get on your high horse here about Reid's "tragically killed son." He's no more tragic or special than anyone else whose crushed car or remains or news of it ends up on the front page of The Danville Register & Bee....
Who's really wacked? Me for telling the world that Media General is racist and sexist? Nah....Gotta be the paper man...gotta be the paper...responses are 97 to 3 in favor of the blog...the 3 are all Register & Bee employees...
Odd...The Danville Register & Bee feeds off of tragically killed sons, daughters too, almost weekly...front page stuff. They even published their "own" tragically killed son of the Media General COO and gave it far more than the typical 15 inches. Why? Sells papers. They don't have a problem with milking the death of one their own's sons or the tragedy of other Danvillians but ($$$$ maker was it?) they don't want anyone else to say anything about it. But wait! A minister reads it and thinks maybe it's a curse because of a management team that seems to think infidelity, homosexuality and abusing/humilating women is funny.
Kang. You MUST be from the R&B. Hm....
What's wacked? A newspaper that thinks a male reporter filming the breasts of local businesswomen without their consent or knowledge....then showing it around the news room to management and laughing about it....or the people who object to it??
Have you seen the parachute video yet? Wow. What do you think? Funny as women being humiliated? Funny as people's lives being ruined? Funny as a drunk sports editor that can do no wrong - except for the 13 chargable offenses...3 DUI's, evading police, missing a DUI court case in Danville to attend another DUI case in NC the same day. Busy man.
Funny as families being devastated by layoffs they weren't warned about and being booted right before Christmas even? Of course not....but what's the difference between someone running that video of a parachutist splatting and The Danville Register & Bee running a picture of someone splatting? Hmmmm....Every time those sirens go off and the police scanner fires up Charles is almost hysterical with excitement - squealing like a little tea kettle - telling Darren someone's got to go get a picture of the fire, or the wreck - but ONLY if it involves tragedy, death or serious injury. Did you know that Danville? You have to be maimed or killed - not just in a wreck to be in the newspaper. Only real gore sells.
Did you ever think about how the family feels when reporters are out there taking photos of bodies that the paper will never use but that the newsroom will laugh over ...like they did the videos of the women Mac McLean filmed? Who's wacked? I'm not the one who chases every fire truck and ambulance to get the story on someone ELSES tragically killed son...different when it's someone you know - or whose father you knew eh?
Think of that next time you pass by a newspaper stand and there's a fire or wreck on the front page. You're making money off of other people's tragedies and don't think a second thing about it. Maybe NOW you know how it feels...no wait...you'll understand better once I find the video...because it WILL be posted. YouTube.com, Google or Faces of Death....
Why? Because I haven't heard an apology. The victims haven't heard an apology and all those involved in the humiliation of years of Register & Bee abuse - Those employees haven't heard an apology.
I don't know what it will take to get through your thick head...what the newspaper did and does do is not right. So don't get on your high horse here about Reid's "tragically killed son." He's no more tragic or special than anyone else whose crushed car or remains or news of it ends up on the front page of The Danville Register & Bee....
Who's really wacked? Me for telling the world that Media General is racist and sexist? Nah....Gotta be the paper man...gotta be the paper...responses are 97 to 3 in favor of the blog...the 3 are all Register & Bee employees...
Friday, August 1, 2008
How many papers did it sell?
Every morning or afternoon in Media General newspapers across the country staff members will gather together to plan the day's stories and to examine the statistics of the stories that ran the day before. How many "hits" did a story get? Why? "Let's do more of those - that story had legs....(did well)."
And the stories that get the most hits - well, those sell papers. What stories typically sell a lot of papers? Death. Tragedy. Fires. Wrecks....but wrecks MUST have serious injury or death. Common fender benders or minor injuries or even spectacular crashes must have blood or the newspaper won't cover them. Only gore sells. So...
I imagine it must be hard - seeing the statistics about how many papers your own son's death sold. The fact it involved a failed parachute, a college kid....that's a bonus...but before anyone gets their shorts in a wad - remember - the paper does this EVERY DAY WITH EVERY ONE OF YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS who are killed, shot, stabbed, injured. They joke about it - like they joked about the breasts of the local businesswoman and they wrestle with whether to put the fire story "above the fold" or the shooting fatality...Which will sell more papers? Death sells. How ironic....that Media General Chief Operating Officer O. Reid Ashe is making money for his stockholders from the tragic accident of his own son.
The Danville Register and Bee ran the story I'm sure for a couple of reasons - One, it was a fatality. They like those. Death sells. Two, UNUSUAL death or death of a young person really sells well. Three - ANYTHING with the REMOTEST connection to Danville - ie. once lived here, was born here, went to school here, drove through here on his way to somewhere else, ate here....any connection to Danville makes the story fair game. The fact that the kid'S father is COO of the company that owns the Register and Bee is close enough to local news that they can assume there will be enough interest locally for people to buy the paper. That is the goal folks - SELL PAPERS. What a shame it's on the backs, deaths and tragedies of people....rather than the good people do.
But I guess Mr. Reid can rest easy now...knowing the system is working....that his papers are selling death...even that of his son. It's a sick business when you peddle the death of your own for a buck.
And the stories that get the most hits - well, those sell papers. What stories typically sell a lot of papers? Death. Tragedy. Fires. Wrecks....but wrecks MUST have serious injury or death. Common fender benders or minor injuries or even spectacular crashes must have blood or the newspaper won't cover them. Only gore sells. So...
I imagine it must be hard - seeing the statistics about how many papers your own son's death sold. The fact it involved a failed parachute, a college kid....that's a bonus...but before anyone gets their shorts in a wad - remember - the paper does this EVERY DAY WITH EVERY ONE OF YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS who are killed, shot, stabbed, injured. They joke about it - like they joked about the breasts of the local businesswoman and they wrestle with whether to put the fire story "above the fold" or the shooting fatality...Which will sell more papers? Death sells. How ironic....that Media General Chief Operating Officer O. Reid Ashe is making money for his stockholders from the tragic accident of his own son.
The Danville Register and Bee ran the story I'm sure for a couple of reasons - One, it was a fatality. They like those. Death sells. Two, UNUSUAL death or death of a young person really sells well. Three - ANYTHING with the REMOTEST connection to Danville - ie. once lived here, was born here, went to school here, drove through here on his way to somewhere else, ate here....any connection to Danville makes the story fair game. The fact that the kid'S father is COO of the company that owns the Register and Bee is close enough to local news that they can assume there will be enough interest locally for people to buy the paper. That is the goal folks - SELL PAPERS. What a shame it's on the backs, deaths and tragedies of people....rather than the good people do.
But I guess Mr. Reid can rest easy now...knowing the system is working....that his papers are selling death...even that of his son. It's a sick business when you peddle the death of your own for a buck.
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