This is just plain stupid

What has that got to do with anything?

Published on May 9, 2005 By Dr Guy In Current Events

Ok, I was one of the ones that said the fiance of jennifer Wilbanks has a hole in his head for marrying her. And I still agree that he should hold her at arms length for some time. But this latest news is just plain stupid and irrelevant!

It seems that 10 or so years ago, she was busted for shoplifting. She got off with community service.

But I have to ask, what has that got to do with anything? NOTHING!

That is so muckraking, it is pathetic! And no wonder why so many people dont listen to the MSM any longer.

So who cares she got busted! She did her time, and that has nothing to do with her antics in New Mexico!

Talk about journalistic arrogance! And we are suppose to listen to these clowns? I think not.

Comments (Page 1)

MasonM

on May 09, 2005

Well, you have jouralists and then you have these vultures who give journalists a bad name. Yeah, it's pretty stupid.

dharmagrl

on May 09, 2005

I saw this on MSNBC earlier.

I think, DG, that the media is trying to cast some doubt on her mental stability. She stole not once, but twice...and she had no reason to steal. It's not like she was stealing to feed her starving family, she was comparitively well off....so one has to ask why she she repeatedly shoplifted.

I already thought she'd wasn't playing with a full deck when she took off before the wedding like that; now these convictions coming to light have just reinforced those thoughts.

MasonM

on May 09, 2005

Maybe, but at this point is it really news?

Moderateman

on May 09, 2005

must be slow news days if they are searching so hard for inflamitory info on an obviously ill woman.

dharmagrl

on May 09, 2005

Maybe, but at this point is it really news?

No, but if you consider that 'not news' then neither is Jennifer Garner getting knocked up, gay men's brains reacting differently to straight men's, or Angelina and Brad watching her kid make sandcastles on the beach. (Those were all things that were on MSNBC.com in the past week)

MasonM

on May 09, 2005

I would call most of that fluff, not news.

dharmagrl

on May 09, 2005

I would call most of that fluff, not news.

As would I, but those are all things that have been on a mainstream 'news' site recently. I guess I'm trying to draw a parallel between it being considered 'news' that this runaway bride chick having been convicted of shoplifting and the stories I mentioned being 'news'.

What we (you and I) consider newsworthy and what the people who edit these sites consider newsworthy are obviously two very different things.

MasonM

on May 09, 2005

What we (you and I) consider newsworthy and what the people who edit these sites consider newsworthy are obviously two very different things.

That's true, but then ours aren't based on dollars.

Zoologist03

on May 09, 2005

Wow...some people have no damn life at all...she's not even running for president and they have to dig up long dead crap.

~Zoo

MasonM

on May 09, 2005

Wow...some people have no damn life at all...she's not even running for president and they have to dig up long dead crap.

How do you think they keep in practice for election time?

island_gurl12

on May 10, 2005

I guess it's just...pff... i dunno... a waste of time... And they get paid for it!

Manopeace

on May 10, 2005

It seems obvious that the status of 'journalism' has sunk to a new level. With morons like that writing the articles, makes one wonder just how much of the political bullshit we read is just that...bullshit!

Dr Guy

on May 10, 2005

I already thought she'd wasn't playing with a full deck when she took off before the wedding like that; now these convictions coming to light have just reinforced those thoughts.

I can see your point, but I still dont agree with it. Hey, I did stupid stuff when I was younger. But that is not an indication of my future behaviour. And while her mental state is in question (as I did question it myself), I dont see how shoplifting equates with cold feet. One is a lack of inhibition, while the other is almost the opposite. The lack of commitment.

Dr Guy

on May 10, 2005

Well, you have jouralists and then you have these vultures who give journalists a bad name. Yeah, it's pretty stupid.

When I was a young guy, we studied about he yellow journalism that got us into the Spanish American War (The Hearst Corporation being one of the prime examples). I thought that was ancient history (Vietnam was not history, it was current events).

But after the heyday of Woodward and Bernstein, it looks like Hearst is back with a vengence. I think the movie 'Absense of Malice' pretty much defines journalism today.

Dr Guy

on May 10, 2005

must be slow news days if they are searching so hard for inflamitory info on an obviously ill woman.

Given their track record, every day must be a slow news day.

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