Showing posts with label Media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Media. Show all posts

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Will County Judge Gerald Kinney should be raped with a metal pipe wrapped with barbed wire, then hung from a lamp post while the citizenry throw rotten tomatoes at him

Well, that's why I would do to any JUDGE WHO THREATENS TO JAIL JOURNALISTS:

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Several journalism organizations are criticizing a judge's decision to find a suburban Chicago reporter in contempt for not disclosing how he obtained confidential police reports about a gruesome double murder.

Will County Judge Gerald Kinney on Friday fined Joe Hosey, a reporter and editor for the AOL news website Patch, $300 a day for not revealing who leaked him the documents. Kinney also said if Hosey doesn't disclose the information within 180 days he could go to jail.

The board of the Illinois News Broadcasters Association, which represents about 200 journalists, issued a statement calling Kinney's decision "a slap at the First Amendment."


This all boils down to the fact the the reporter in question works for Patch, an online-only news experiment. Dick Durbin is sponsoring legislation that would protect journalists, as long as they don't work for online news organizations. Fuck you Dick Durbin. Fuck you with an elephant's dick.

Mainstream media news that did me absolutely no good whatsoever

Real Housewives Star LuAnn de Lesseps Splits From Boyfriend Jacques Aszoulay.

From the PJStar.com.

Reading this news did not improve me life in the the slightest. It did not improve ANYONE's life in the slightest. Yet, a mainstream reporter spent all day tracking down the facts for this story. God knows how many editors spent their day refining it to make it perfect, because God help us all if a sentence ends in a preposition. And then, layout and distribution.

I didn;t link to this story. I refuse. If you HAVE TO READ IT, do a Google search. Google is good for this sort of thing.