Rocky Mountain News "tweets" dead boy's funeral, now (thankfully) being savaged

Sam Mills 51 · Sep 25, 2008

hurricane said:

More defending.

http://www.westword.com/2008-09-25/news/last-rites-on-the-rocky-mountain-news-s-twittering/

"I think it's absurd to say you shouldn't Twitter a funeral, absolutely absurd," Temple announced. "That's like saying you shouldn't write stories about journalism. To me, it's just ignorant. It has no relationship to the reality of reporting. People hunger for information. They want information about live events, and there can be times when it's totally appropriate for some people to want information from a funeral." For example, he said, "I can imagine someone wanting to read a play-by-play of the pope's funeral." As if there were no difference between a funeral for the head of the Catholic Church and a farewell to a previously anonymous toddler.

"You're free to think what you like," Temple continued, "but your thinking is indicative of the stultified, deadly minds that are destroying American news organizations."
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This guy needs to feel the wrath of a thousand tanning lamps. Now.

At least Mike Shanahan ought to have some in storage he can loan out.

SF_Express · Sep 25, 2008

hurricane said:

More defending.

http://www.westword.com/2008-09-25/news/last-rites-on-the-rocky-mountain-news-s-twittering/

"I think it's absurd to say you shouldn't Twitter a funeral, absolutely absurd," Temple announced. "That's like saying you shouldn't write stories about journalism. To me, it's just ignorant. It has no relationship to the reality of reporting. People hunger for information. They want information about live events, and there can be times when it's totally appropriate for some people to want information from a funeral." For example, he said, "I can imagine someone wanting to read a play-by-play of the pope's funeral." As if there were no difference between a funeral for the head of the Catholic Church and a farewell to a previously anonymous toddler.

"You're free to think what you like," Temple continued, "but your thinking is indicative of the stultified, deadly minds that are destroying American news organizations."
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The funeral thing was wrong, and still is.

But he's right in that last quote.

Editude · Sep 25, 2008

What's destroying newsrooms isn't whether technology is used a certain way. It's the industry-wide inability to translate the collective strength and brand of newspapers to a rapidily morphing financial model. If we were to have printed the text of a sent-by-couplers funeral 20 years ago, it would have been as laughable as Twittering it today. The standards for quality journalism haven't changed nearly as much as the way to afford them.

DemoChristian · Sep 25, 2008

The guy is a serious asshat. People like him are what is wrong with this industry.
PBP on a kid's funeral? Beyond ridiculous.

SlickWillie71 · Sep 25, 2008

Is this what the future of this industry is coming to? If that's the case, then I really am looking forward to the day I no longer am a part of it. Gutless, tasteless and a boatload of other -less that I can't jog my mind to.

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