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January 1, 2015

"These people could snap at any minute...."

A Denver newspaper columnist is arrested for stalking a story subject. In Cincinnati, a television reporter is arrested on charges of child molestation.

A North Carolina newspaper reporter is arrested for harassing a local woman. A drunken Chicago Sun-Times columnist and editorial board member is arrested for wife beating. A Baltimore newspaper editor is arrested for threatening neighbors with a shotgun. In Florida, one TV reporter is arrested for DUI, while another is charged with carrying a gun into a high school. A Philadelphia news anchorwoman goes on a violent drunken rampage, assaulting a police officer. In England, a newspaper columnist is arrested for killing her elderly aunt. 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.
- - Vintage iowahawk: Bylines of Brutality

Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 1, 2015 12:00 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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"another is charged with carrying a gun into a high school."

In all fairness, given the state of the American Educational system, carrying a gun into a high school is probably just wisdom.

Posted by: Fat Man [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 1, 2015 1:30 PM

I once made a front page editor go into a mouth-foaming melt down by just saying John Paul II was an okay kinda Pope. It was a glorious thing to behold! What bloviation! What a screed. He was an atheist, of course. I complimented him on his evangelical-like zeal. That wasn't helpful at all, but it was very entertaining. His last name was McCarthy. Or McCatharsis....I forget, now. That was back in 1984.

Posted by: Mother Effingby [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 2, 2015 8:28 PM

"I think it's unfair to single out journalists as thieves, or violent, or drunks, or child abusers," says Reynolds. "Sometimes they're all of the above."

I read that when Reynolds first wrote it, and I have never forgotten it. Anything that skewers the media gives me great joy. But dammit, does it always have to be metaphorical?

Posted by: DaveR [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 3, 2015 6:15 AM

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