As Casualties Mount, Some Question The Emotional Stability of Media Vets

[I can't think of a name]

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/01/notepads-of-sha.html


A Denver newspaper columnist is arrested for stalking a story subject (http://www.rcfp.org/news/2004/0603altern.html). In Cincinnati, a television reporter is arrested on charges of child molestation (http://cincinnati.blogspot.com/2004/02/wcpo-tv-news-reporter-arrested-on-***.html). A North Carolina newspaper reporter is arrested for harassing a local woman (http://www.carypolitics.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=124). A drunken Chicago Sun-Times columnist and editorial board member is arrested for wife beating (http://www.allbusiness.com/services/business-services-miscellaneous-business/4683114-1.html). A Baltimore newspaper editor is arrested for threatening neighbors with a shotgun (http://free-daily.blogspot.com/2007/05/examiner-editor-arrested-on-gun-charges.html). In Florida, one TV reporter is arrested for DUI (http://soupcans.blogspot.com/2008/01/miami-reporter-arrested-for-dui.html), while another is charged with carrying a gun (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,304636,00.html) into a high school. A Philadelphia news anchorwoman goes on a violent drunken rampage (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/nyregion/17anchor.html?ref=nyregion), assaulting a police officer. In England, a newspaper columnist is arrested for killing her elderly aunt (http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=33451&sectioncode=1).
Unrelated incidents, or mounting evidence of that America's newsrooms have become a breeding ground for murderous, drunk, gun-wielding child molesters? Answers are elusive, but the ever-increasing toll of violent crimes committed by journalists has led some experts to warn that without programs for intensive mental health care, the nation faces a potential bloodbath at the hands of psychopathic media vets.
"These people could snap at any minute," says James Treacher of the Treacher Institute for Journalist Studies (http://jimtreacher.com/archives/000958.html). "We need to get them the help and medication they need before it's too late."


roflRead the whole thing.

[prebanman]

Hunter S. Thompson proves that this is nothing new, newspeople have always been cracked out, gun-toting savages.

[loganinkosovo]

Hunter S. Thompson proves that this is nothing new, newspeople have always been cracked out, gun-toting savages.

No...just a bunch of effete leftist snobs who place themselves above the sheep they report on and who's lives are oh so much more important than any of the other lesser lives they come in contact with and seek to destroy on a daily basis.

[BloodyTalon]

Hunter S. Thompson proves that this is nothing new, newspeople have always been cracked out, gun-toting savages.
Well in Hunter S. Thompson's defense, he did try to hide his drug addiction and unusual personality. On the contrary, he made it the focus of all of his writings.

[I can't think of a name]

I would like more people to turn the tables around and look at the media the way the media look at everyone else.

[Bombtrack]

That's brilliant. Like that recent article about how Iraq vets are responsible for x amount of 'killings' in the country, when really the number wasnt that high and probably not far off from any other occupational group.

[Mr X]

Hunter S. Thompson proves that this is nothing new, newspeople have always been cracked out, gun-toting savages.

Gold pure gold. Lol.

[Aerosoul]

What's the point here? Pick a random segment of the population, find a few criminal stories somewhere across the country, and all of the sudden that whole segment of the population is guilty by association?

Bravo. :roll:

[Bombtrack]

You guys are thick.

[I can't think of a name]

What's the point here? Pick a random segment of the population, find a few criminal stories somewhere across the country, and all of the sudden that whole segment of the population is guilty by association?

Bravo. :roll:


This satire went over your head

[Wilco]

This satire went over your head

That's usually the case with him.

[afreu]

No...just a bunch of effete leftist snobs who place themselves above the sheep they report on and who's lives are oh so much more important than any of the other lesser lives they come in contact with and seek to destroy on a daily basis.

And of course all reporters are leftists. Pratically everybody is against you. Must be really tough to be a conservative nowadays. I've pity on you.

[Aerosoul]

If this is satire it should be in OT&H.
Forgive me for coming here for a serious discussion.

Fact is, the subject here is something many people would believe. loganinkosovo's post is evidence of that blind disdain for all journalists.