When is this irresponsibility going to end?

[CRB#33]

The media has been asked to stop their irresponsible speculation.

Ex and retired criminal profilers have been asked to keep their mouths shut and to stop trying to get their faces on the television.

Leaks of evidence are made to the press. Unforgivable.

WHY? Because of Freedom of the Press, of Speech????

How many people have to die before people keep their mouths shut?

And yet it's still going on. Just turn on CNN and Fox. It's like a drug to these people.

"Sniper on the Loose" CNN calls it. They're spending the day on it. This lunatic is gleefully laughing at us all.

Sorry for the vent. Thanks for listening.

edited to clarify: that I pretty much agree with Becka below, although I think that stupidity of the press and freedom of the press are now a blurred line.

 

[Serena]

I agree.

 

[becka]

I am very thankful that we have freedom of the press in this country. However, I wish we could outlaw stupidity of the press.

 

[snoopy]

My thoughts exactly.

Especially frightening when you are living among the "sniper on the loose" and watching these newspeople foaming at the mouth for any tidbit of information.

 

[Dan Murphy]

So very true, CRB!!!

 

[figmentvi]

Originally posted by becka
I am very thankful that we have freedom of the press in this country. However, I wish we could outlaw stupidity of the press.

Very well said Becka !!!!

 

[Serena]

Yep, very well said.

 

[Dodie]

I just got angrier and angrier as I started to watch Dateline last night. Why have a former FBI profiler giving his opinion on tv, which may indeed be the same opinions that are being formed by the FBI profilers actually working on the case?!!!

Why would anyone "close to the investigation" tell the press about this loser's little "calling card" that he left at the scene? After all - that just serves his purpose. Gives him more publicity. Makes him seem in control.

Why tell us anything that may jeopardize finding out who this nutcase is?!!!!

 

[JAP]

Very well said. I have actually gotten better information from Blondie and Snoopy here at the DIS. It makes me too angry to watch FOX.

 

[bfeller]

Becka says it all for me.

 

[EROS]

Of course, in Vietnam, China, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, citizens certainly wouldn't see such speculation on TV. Of course, they also don't have access to the "truth" about events, local or international. Perhaps we should call in the DIS censors to help the networks decide upon appropriate content for the masses............... ............

 

[snoopy]

LOL EROS!! I don't know how people get mad at you, cuz' you always make me laugh.

I'm not calling for complete censorship, but just wishing these reporters would bring themselves a notch above tabloid reporting, which is what some of this crap is. Like the whole business with the Tarot cards. Completely insignificant to the general public, its bad enough we have this crazy loon running around, but now we've got people worried about the supernatural, no doubt. I don't want to hear about this case unless its real news, in that he has been caught or at least identified.

 

[tedsmom]

Somehow EROS, I don't think we'll have to worry anytime soon that conditions in the USA are going to be like those in countries such as Chine,Iraq,Vietnam etc. Just a tad bit melodramatic, don't you think?

I too wish the media would use some common sense in dealing with issues such as this one, since at times their involvement can actually impede an investigation, and aid the criminal in continuing to commit his/her crimes. When you think of it, the media is giving the criminal an awful lot of information.

Contrary to EROS' belief, I don't think people are looking as much for censorship as common sense in reporting news. Unfortunately, common sense doesn't seem to be too common.

 

[gina2000]

There is no good answer in this situation. If no information is released, the police/FBI is accused of withholding valuable information which may prevent another crime from occurring. If every bit of information is sought, pried and printed on the part of the press, a circus mentality is created.

I agree with Snoops on this one. Sensationalism stinks. Especially when it only benefits one entity in its quest for ratings, ratings, ratings.

Oh, I also agree about EROS.....he makes me laugh, too.

 

[Saffron]

Becka I agree with you!

And -- I just got it! I can finally look at EROS' posts and laugh! I never saw it before! Now I do!

 

[CRB#33]

LOL, Saffron, I think I finally just got it too. It is pretty laughable!

Hugs Snoopy, this has to be so hard for you.

 

[EROS]

Of course, we've heard the same "rants" about the "dangers" of a free press before. When Daniel Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers, the White House was unsuccessful in preventing their publication in the NEW YORK TIMES . As usual, the reactionaries in power, Nixon and Kissinger, tried to use the old "national security" argument and called Ellsberg the "most dangerous man in America".

A FREE press is not always going to be a SMART press. That's a price that a free society pays for freedom of expression. For those who feel that the media should somehow be "controlled" or censored, I'd advise living in a totalitarian country. I have. It wasn't pretty ..............

 

[Dodie]

I wish someone would explain it to me so I could LAUGH at EROS' posts - which admittedly usually do NOT currently make me laugh.

 

[CRB#33]

The Freedom of the Press does not preclude them from acting responsibly. That's the basis of this thread as one can see from the title.

I don't believe that is what is happening. Whatever happened to common sense responsibility in the press? Was it ever there?

And what about the irresponsibility of these profilers? They, of all people should know not to do what they're doing.

Dodie-sent you a pm.

 

[EROS]

DODIE, "any" sense of humor from the Conservative standard-bearers of the DIS is welcome relief from their personal attacks. They take themselves soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo seriously