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

Ironically, the paper's story that you just posted with the link is great journalism, IMO.

 

No jury would convict you.

 

and I wouldn't care if they did.

truth be told ... if I were in denver, I might still show up. and pretty sure that later tonight a letter will be fired off tot he rmn. used to want to work there.

 

No.

I hope Colorado's readers are happy. Between RMN doing this, and Dean Singleton's gross mismanagement that will sink his publications, there won't be much for the area's readers to absorb.

 

When you are typing -- and typing -- and typing -- and typing -- and typing -- you are not writing, and you most assuredly are not thinking.

I would rather read one 15-inch story/feature/column on this funeral tomorrow morning than to get a blow-by-blow of the separate acts involved in the overall funeral. Give me a superior writer, writing one time (not for blog + online + "second-day lead" print version), and I'll give you some money and your advertisers some eyeball time. But throw these inane IM-like observations at me and I'll drop you for all time like a bad habit.

I thought at-bat by at-bat, and down-by-down, blogs were wasted energy enough, driven by technology but not journalism. Seriously, with TV, radio and league Web sites, who wants to stare at their monitor to get the play-by-play of a game? And who wants to read a story later by a writer who was immersed in typing play-by-play inanities from the game's start to its finish?

But doing this from a funeral is off the charts. Next: Twittering an autopsy. "The skull cutter has opened what's left of JFK's cranium" ... "The nurse is swabbling blood away from the brain tissue" ...

BFD. People have fancy gadgets and can type on them what they see and hear. Try thinking and processing and providing some context and perspective and emotion and art to it, nimrods.

 

The person who wrote the story is not the person who twittered.

Berny Morson is the person who twittered and is hopefully now looking for work.

 

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

Bingo. That's all that needs to be said.

 

WFF'nW

 

i'm a mother and a journalist....and if this ever happened to me, i would own the paper by the time I was done with lawyers.

 

Well, with respect to both of those roles, I don't think you'd get very far in any kind of civil action on this, as bad as it might have been. It was public funeral, and there's nothing actionable I can possibly think of here.

 

Not the case, most of the time, with the big games, where the beat guy is supposed to live-BLOG!

Also, since we're all getting rid of staff, how do you justify covering a funeral with multiple people? Or, if you do, what else isn't getting covered today because of that?

 

but you can make the public hate them even more than they already do ... and to save that, rmn probably settles.