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Last updated on July 2nd, 2017 at 12:16 pm
Iowahawkian genius:
(Trail of Death I, Trail of Death II)
Worst of it is, the only way the public can learn about media vet crime is via the media, but with media culture so steeped in drunkenness and violence, many crimes are either seen as normal behavior or suppressed by commanding editors.
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2008 01 17 at 06:53 PM • permalink
#2 is right about the suppression. If that trend lines continues up and back, we’ll find out that media violent crimes occurring now is much higher than currently reported. Kind of like a “reverse Lancet” effect.
Posted by ErnestBludger on 2008 01 17 at 07:14 PM • permalink
- Posted by Evil Pundit on 2008 01 17 at 07:14 PM • permalink
I’m so excited; my first time on TB! Now, what’s the subject? Oh, oh yeah, criminal journos; how about carlton for bad dress sense and a smug punchable face; adams for avuncularity and santa clausitism; roebuck for impersonisation of a character from “Ripping Yarns”? Damn, they’re a bit flat; I guess mum was right, losing your virginity is no big deal.
- That was excellent.
Hopefully the mindless drones that wrote the original piece for the NYT get to read it.Posted by Hank Reardon on 2008 01 17 at 07:17 PM • permalink
Welcome Aboard.
As to the graph and it’s implications…
If we do find that there is an organized program of under reporting of journo criminality then the trend may actually be so steep that it stalls out at the top and falls back in on itself.
Then, with the updated, but still inaccurate reportage, it would climb again, only to repeat the stall and fall.
This graph might actually turn into one of those decaying spiral doohickeys that folk use to mesmerize themselves.
#5 Hi, cohenite! I know you from elsewhere—Good to see you here.
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2008 01 17 at 07:35 PM • permalink
“Bylines of Brutality” – that piece is a keeper!
Unrelated incidents, or mounting evidence of that America’s newsrooms have become a breeding ground for murderous, drunk, gun-wielding child molesters?
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2008 01 17 at 07:39 PM • permalink
In the land of OZ reporters, journalists and commentators are treated with the contempt they deserve. There is nobody to blame but themselves as they continue with shoddy reporting, next to nil research and no editorial oversight. With the increased use of the internet by the average person to get the news, I suppose they resort to these splashes of stupidity to get noticed, similar to insecure children really.
This is written tongue in cheek of course, I hope all of them implode and disappear.
Actually, this is one area where folk like our Mr. Tim, Jules Crittenden and others of that sort, piss me off.
If they’d knock it off and be like regular journos, we wouldn’t have to add in the “yeah but”s when trashing journos and the industry that employs them.
Having decent, honorable, integrity driven journos means rants have to add all kinds of complexity to the grammar and almost always, in my case at least, leads to missing and/or misplaced commas, run on sentences and the employment of words I’m not sure I fully understand in meaning or proper usage.
Jerks.
Beautiful. This is on a level with iowahawk’s ‘It is Finally Time to Exit the Oldsmobile’ kick to Ted Kennedy’s groin.
Posted by Crispytoast on 2008 01 17 at 08:32 PM • permalink
Just to be on the safe side, I have discontinued home delivery of the newspaper.
And I encourage honest citizens to be on the lookout for this guy, last seen applying (unsuccessfully) for a job with Fat Boy’s Barbecue in Temple, Texas, as editor of their employee newsletter. Note the sloping forehead, the reptilian eyes, the shifty look. Known to suffer from BDS. Wanted on charges of aiding and abetting a forgery, libel, impersonating an anchor man, and general strangeness. Not armed, but should be considered extremely dangerous because of his ability to emit harmful weird-rays. If spotted, do not attempt to apprehend. Call your local police. That is all.
I’d like to see Iowahawk apply the IPCC’s climate models to this issue for even extra scienciness.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2008 01 17 at 08:55 PM • permalink
I wonder how many journalists will have the courage to come forward and be “The Winter Reporter”?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 01 17 at 09:02 PM • permalink
Yes, here in America the media are greatly concerned with violence. That’s why they’re premiering a series starring a Serial Killer, “Dexter,” next month…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 01 17 at 09:09 PM • permalink
#24 Well I’m not minding the holiday from Reco, Barry Bones, Urqardt et. al. too much at all… Gated Communities have their charms.
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2008 01 17 at 09:32 PM • permalink
#17 n the land of OZ reporters, journalists and commentators are treated with the contempt they deserve…
Steady on—that applies to Fairfax journalists, in spades. Murdoch journalists are OK on the whole.
Posted by walterplinge on 2008 01 17 at 10:01 PM • permalink
Speaking of journalists, a strange headline just flashed up on my desktop from our ABC.
Good news about the Great Barrier Reef? Is everything all right over there in Ultimo?
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2008 01 17 at 10:25 PM • permalink
Yeah, reporters are a dangerous breed; but I wonder what Iowahawk’s analytical model would reveal if it were applied to actors? Speaking of which, here is some Grade-A Tom Cruise weirdness. The salute at the end is mega-creepy.
He he he……Iowahawk does it again!!!! Almost as good as the Lutherans taking British sailors hostage!!!
BTW
Posted by cohenite on 2008 01 17 at 07:15 PM • permalink
Welcome!!
Posted by Old Tanker on 2008 01 17 at 11:05 PM • permalink
Having seen the “impartial” ABC take close in shots to present a group of about 18 ferals protesting at a detention centre as a large crowd, worthy of placing about 2nd story on the national news. Nothing would suprise me as far as journous go.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 01 17 at 11:24 PM • permalink
- Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 01 17 at 11:29 PM • permalink
More mega-creepiness from Tom.mega-creepiness
#49: And then selling the bathwater for a tidy sum, no doubt.
Posted by ErnestBludger on 2008 01 18 at 12:51 AM • permalink
#36. ‘Darn it, are we reading a South African Newspaper?’
South Africa huh…? Why can’t these people just integrate!?
A South African teenager suspected of killing four people in a shooting spree at a black settlement has appeared in court as angry protesters said the killings were racially motivated.
Johan Nel, 18, is suspected of killing a 3-month-old child, a 10-year-old boy, a man in his 30s and a woman who died 24 hours after the shooting. Seven people were also wounded in the shooting at the Skielik squatter camp on Monday.
- I totally endorse Iowahawk’s confronting exposé.
Many years experience has made me cautious of journalists, especially on a Friday night when they break out the booze.
The walk to the far end of the car park is not unlike that trip to Coney Island.
My god, I never knew the potential time bomb that these 4th-estaters represent. I can’t believe that I exposed my family to someone like… our host Tim, whom the crack Iowahawk research team describes as “a big incompetent powder keg ready to go off”. Oh the shame!
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2008 01 18 at 10:32 AM • permalink
Writings by Iowahawk (curls fingers in wriggly motion) and Tim Blair are the type of thing I look for in newspapers. Witty, funny, insightful, yet making a point.
It’s the fact that newspapers are NOT offering such fare (except for Lileks) is the reason I’ve allowed many newspapers and magazine subscriptions to lapse. Yes, even the venerable Wall Street Journal. I can only get it at rightwing blogs.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 01 18 at 11:16 AM • permalink
The media will start reporting on this phenomenon when it becomes a trend and not a moment before. If at all.
Oh, and thanks for including the graph. I didn’t really get it until the graph smartened me up.
Posted by spongeworthy on 2008 01 18 at 01:25 PM • permalink
One word: brilliant.
Best wishes to you, Tim.