Amish funerals
Look, you fuckers, I respect the work of the fourth estate (well, some of them) as much as the next guy, but the same ASSHOLES that are bitching about the religious rights of MUSLIMS have used long lenses and other bullshit to take pictures of the Amish. These people don’t like that, OK? I’m with them. I hate having my picture taken, and have gotten in fistfights about it. LEAVE THEM ALONE. They have as much right to their privacy as the Muslims you are constantly nattering about. Cocksuckers! Show some respect. Taking pictures of grieving people at a funeral. Shame on you!
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This is when I hate the media the most – they are low down disgusting vile people. Anything for a story no matter what. That these people didn’t ask to be in the “limelight” doesn’t matter. That they are hurting… the reporters could care less. It’s the story baby.
The slimy bastards.
exactly. well said, og.
Hear Hear!
Look inside the metro section of the Chicago Libune today. They have a piture of Diamond Brownridge, the 5 year old child who sadly passed away last week (due to a screw up by a dentist who administered anethesia) IN HER CASKET!
THe inside of the news section has the procession of the Amish as well.
Have some respect people.
Bloom County, I think, had it best when it portrayed the media as a pack of baying hounds.
If it bleeds, it leads.
Og,
This is really not new. I’m now 60. I can recall my granddad referring to journalists as the worst whores in the world. It’s now just worse as each perv tries to exceed the last perv’s outrage just so they’ll be sure to be picked up. Like Jackass, only with a journalism degree.
And the rest of us have been forced to endure the antics, to the breath in the environment containing all detritus these jacks kick up even when we aren’t directly their patrons.
Were there any decent people managing to stay employed with the media, my site provides them with a mechanism to anonymously blow the whistle on the pervs they are forced to live with. Yet Media remains one bastion which has never made an attempt to expose its own there.
So, let me rephrase, If there are any decent people managing to stay employed in media….
There’s nothing the vultures won’t exploit. Thanks for saying it, Og.
Amen. I hope they all get a big cosmic bitch slap…
Hah Rump!
Um. Well.
Those are some awfully big generalizations there from your readers, Og. And I respectfully submit that before they go shootin’ us all, they ought to walk in our shoes and find out what it’s really like.
Just sayin’.
I couldn’t agree more!
You are correct, sir, AND well said.
fuckers…
I’ve spent some time w/the folks in Lancaster Co. PA, & found then to be straightforward, plain, honest people. Each group of humans has their foibles, but the intrusion of the media in this instance is abhorrent.
Let the people & their children be at peace.
A reporter acting like this to expose government corruption, corporate negligence or robbery, then that’s great muckracking. But being this nosy to provide an expose of Amish funeral habits, well, what a misuse of the tool of investigative journalism. Just like showing pageant shots and videos of Jon Benet 40,000 times.
North Korea is testing a missile that can reach Japan, Japan is s**ting its collective drawers over this, and what are we preoccupied with? Page scandal.
We had a huge page scandal 20 years ago, so this isn’t new stuff. Isn’t it news if some power addicted shape shifter in Congress didn’t hit on a nubile late-teenage page who tickled his purient fancy? That would be man bites dog.
Forget reporting on why the state is snapping on the latex gloves and getting ready to fist us with yet another major property tax deluge. A whole ten minutes went by since anyone mentioned Paris and Nicole!
Surely, Broad, you can’t defends this type of behavior. And the press as a whole Is like this. You are one of many exceptions I personally know. And I HAVE walked in your shoes. As have a couiple of the commenters here.
Journalists are down there with lawyers and politicians, which is somewhere way below Whale poop, in the grand scheme of things.
If I were walking down the street, and saw a journalists laying on the other side, completely engulfed in flames, I wouldn’t take the time or energy to cross the street to piss on them.
Intruding in a funeral, one of the most private moments on the planet for most people, should be considered a capital crime, punishable by death.
Journalist is just a synonym for cocksucker.
Not on the surface, no, but then I refuse to cover funerals unless the paper has prior permission to be there, or else I stay waaaay in the back and do not talk to people directly, relying on what’s said during the service. But I’ve also found that in the absolute worst of situations, there are people who want to talk to us, who just want to put something nice out there in the ether about their loved one.
To blame reporters solely for covering what you people want us to cover is ridiculous, and I resent being called a “cocksucker,” “disgusting, vile person” and “non-decent” for a decision that I can promise you wasn’t the reporters’ to make.
… but whore is hard to deny, eh?
Don’t be smug, pascal. You know exactly what I mean.
Broad, dont be obtuse. THer pictures fot he mennonites is wrong. Period. Out of line.
The job of the fourht estate is not to “give us what we want”. That would be the job of the National Enquirer. The job of the fourth estate is to report news. Not to act like vultures, not to Walter Cronkite and Dan rather their own view to the world, but report news.
In areas of Indiana (Like Napannee) where there is a large amish population, the standard deal is anytime Amish are pictured, it’s never their faces, from a distance, and usually in their carriages. No faces are shown. No amish ever did anything to deserve anyone’s distrespect, and I think it is a symptom of what is wrong with the media in general that this kind of crap happened. (ed: Sorry, Broad, this was me)
Why, hello there, ogwife — hope all’s good.
I’m not being obtuse or necessarily disagreeing with anyone.What I’m saying is, the notion people have that the lowly reporter is consistently behind every bad decision the media makes is tiresome, and calling US every name in the book is unfair and misguided. The great majority of us are not getting up every morning and saying, “A funeral where a whole family was wiped about by a mass murderer? Jackpot! I’m SO THERE!” In fact, one of our photographers STILL has nightmares about being on the scene right after that drag racer wiped out a crowd in Gary this past spring. But that’s the public wants.
You (collectively, not you personally) want to rail against someone? Rail against the people who want to see the gories and the corporations who ensure the people get what they want. The reporters often have nothing to do with either.
PS: If someone’s going to split hairs, no, the photographer did NOT choose to take that assignment. He was told “Get there.”
Sure. Listen to what I’m saying: Because the Enquirer chooses to pander to the prurient interests of the public, doesn’t mean that every damned paper on earth has to do so.
I AM listening, and I’m not disagreeing with you or the missus at all. But I’m telling you, the reporters aren’t the ones making the decisions, so the collective needs to stop putting the sole blame on them.
Did I say “reporters”?
Damn, I’m sorry, this is ME, and I keep forgetting to redo the comment pane.
No, YOU didn’t, nor ogwife, it looks like. Others in this discussion, however, have, and that’s what I take umbrage with.
In the meantime, earl needs changing, and so do my brakes. Sometime this weekend? I’ll bring pizza and beer …
This weekend sounds good. Stop on by.
On the third hand, however, I can name a round baker’s dozen of reporters who not only anxiously await asinine assignments, but are thrilled to get them. It ain’t only editors and publishers who choose to bring forth the prurient for others to see.
Sure — just like there are crappy engineers who cut corners to save money, crappy public servants who get drunk on their own power, nurses who concoct weaker chemo, etc. Therefore, is it fair to label a whole profession over the actions of some? I say no.
But this is a good discussion, anyway.
If engineers and public servants went bad at the rate members of the media did, all of western civilization would collaps overnight. Engineering is based on hard rules of physics. media is based on “how far can I push my personal agenda before someone actually attempts to kill me”. Name 50 random engineers, and 50 random media types (in ANY media) and you can easily see that while the engineers may have their problems, all 50 follow the rules. Of the media types, 46 of the 50 are only interested in a: how much money they can make, b: how much they can twist the facts to reflect their own agendas, and c: How much money they can make twisting the facts to reflect their own agendas. In engineering when you change things to suit your ego, people die. In the media, when you change things to suit your ego, you win awards. And this is not a label applied to a whole profession but an observation of fact.
Well, of COURSE reporters are interested in making money; tell me who isn’t.
But it seems to me that you’re now looking at columnists instead of regular reporters, and that’s an entirely different critter.
No. Columnists, reporters, photographers, disk jockeys, talk show hosts, TV reporters. All members of the media. There are a lot of assholes in the business which was why I got out. A Frank Reynolds only comes along every so often. Frankly, Broad, you are more even handed than most, and you do pretty clear reporting without making the mistake of editorializing in your reporting (that pretty much everyone does). Because you don’t regularly cross the line between reporting and editorializing, you will make a decent living but you’ll never be one of the Big Guys. And I respect you for making the decision to write the way you do. And I don’t retract a single thing I’ve said: the lions share of media, print, radio, tv, and now even the new media, are assholes. Myself included.
Fair enough. We shall agree to disagree.
And more importantly, I’ll take “not being one of the Big Guys” as a compliment. Too much pressure.
You know as well as I do, that if you went over the top you could further your career and you don’t. That’s why I like it when you come around. As to disagreeing, well, there isn’t anything to disagree about. You know what I’m saying is true.