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Citizen
Im already tired of it. A assistant coach is accused of raping children at a summer camp at a state college. Subsequently the head coach and President are fired. The students riot, destroying property including news vans.
Now the media is turning it into a circuis, a local media story about a criminal charge, only important because it involves college football, which people set above countries going bankrupt, soldiers dying in war, 14 trillion in debt, the election of the most powerful person in the world, citizens occupying cities. Soon, Headline news will be 24/7 coverage of whatever trials come out of this. The Sunday politics programs have canceled their coverage of politics in favor of local crime. It pisses me off.
It even brought down Asthon Kutchie.
Kutcher surrenders Twitter feed after gaffe | Herald SunASHTON Kutcher has enlisted a team of communications specialists to help him manage his Twitter feed after he ignorantly tweeted a message in support of a sacked US football coach.
"Clearly the platform has become too big to be managed by a single individual," Kutcher, 33, wrote today.
"I feel responsible for delivering an informed opinion and not spreading gossip or rumors through my Twitter feed .... while I will continue to express myself through @Aplusk I'm going to turn the management of the feed over to my team at Katalyst Media to ensure the quality of its content," he said.
Moderator
Well, it is what it is. People for the most part, just don't care about what's happening in Europe or other parts of the world. Though the so-called 'Arab Spring' was somewhat exceptional in that regard.
On the other hand, tens of millions of people follow college football---to the extent it is a multi-billion dollar business. So when 'JoPa' goes down in the manner in which he did, it comprises big news.
Secretary of Defense
The funny part is your outrage culminates in noting that Ashton Kutcher was brought down. Who cares? All that demonstrates is that Ashton Kutcher is a combination of (a) stupid for not thinking through what he was going to say and (b) a pussy for not sticking up for what he says. Which is the problem with most people in America. That's why you can peer pressure someone if you're a liberal like "what? You don't believe in global warming??" and 75% of people will go "uh, ha ha, no no no I do!! Polar bears need our saving!! Right?" And the liberals will all relax and smile approvingly. When the reality is you should be like "no, retards, I don't." I don't even know what Kutcher said, other than that he supported Paterno -- which I do, as well.
What's worse, though? Kutcher acting like a stupid pussy, or the fact that people are hanging off his every tweet?
U.S. Senator
The media does what it can to sell as many papers as possible but this doesn't make the story any less important.
Legend of USPO
This kind of crap is not a media frenzy, they are simply feeding the poor dumbed down American idiots who make stories like this the focus of their daily lives. Really, people, what makes the pedophile in this story special? Is he the first pedophile that the people around him put the blinders on for?
And BTW, Fuck Ashton Kucher, what does he have to do with any of it in the first place?
Take a good hard look, it's coming.
2011 USPOL Most Valuable Poster (MVP)
ahoy Jviehe,Originally Posted by jviehe
i haven't actually read much on the topic, matey...but if ye indeed see and and hear 'bout the story everywhar ye turn, thats freedom, matey.
americans have the freedom to put thar lookin' glass to thar eye and gaze longingly at whatever inspires thar attention, and the news media be free to feed this yearnin'.
things like debt, derivatives, isreali policy on the West Bank, etc, etc, etc, be complicated and be less fun to learn about.
sex, college football, and the downfall 'o the mighty - now thats somethin' that all americans can grasp and rally thar attention towards.
AYE!
- MeadHallPirate
Secretary of Defense
Well, he has the intellect of a child and is sleeping with someone twice his age, so maybe he is relevant to the story.
Citizen
It was sarcasm. But anyway, we should expect more the media.
Vice President
While the crime(s) and cover-up are heinous, how the situation is being handled by the news media demonstrates an absurd range of priorities that illustrates how it has stumbled and failed in being anything but a second rate peepshow.
We can't have an informed and involved citizenry if we are wallowing in the latest scandal and filth on a regular basis. Self styled media elites even have the gumption to tell us how we are supposed to feel about the ill-framed news they spew and yet they wonder why sales of newspapers is down.
I don't even understand the feeding frenzy mentality of the modern press, how they settle to all compete on the same story about a missing baby, buggered child or privileged pervert is simply pathetic. Something else is happening out there and we aren't being told about it.
Secretary of Defense
That's basically my point and what I've been saying in the other JoePa thread. It's funny how the story isn't even about Jerry Sandusky anymore. He's basically a bit player in the news, not even mentioned. Which is curious, considering he's the actual perpetrator of the crime. The reason Joe Paterno is the big news is because a) he is iconic enough that he actually represents the entire university and b) he's famous, which nobody else is. In other words, if the story was about Sandusky, 99% of people would go "who?" and perhaps be angry for a day or two. But if it's against Joe Paterno, it's like we can turn this into something that goes on for over half a month! Yeah! I mean, first we cover his reaction. Then the reaction of us to his reaction. Then he gets fired and we cover that. Then the students react and we cover that. Then the first football game without him is covered. Hold me, I'm having an erection! Meanwhile, you don't even know where Jerry Sandusky is, but you know Joe Paterno's every movement, literally. There's a story about how he watched the football game on television on ESPN.com. Amazing! Erections!
It's a joke how retarded people are. The media points them at someone and tells them to be angry and they get angry. Grrrrr, anger! I'm angry!!! Tell me when to stop!! Now? No? Grrr, I'm still angry!
Governor
Somebody rapes a child: bad. People ignore or cover it up: bad. Does it happen all the time? Yes. Does that make it OK? No.
It happens in a college, in a football program, a very popular football program that makes a lot of money, it involves a very successful coach who has been in his position for decades, it involves people who equate their diploma with said football program…
…did I mention that someone was raped? I hate this story. It’s visceral, granted, and I’d like to think most people on this site aren’t found of raping young boys (though I wonder sometimes).
I dislike the attention this story gets in times of serious economic issues. Thank God for Tivo, because I fast-forward the updates.
U.S. Senator
You might not have heard of him until two weeks ago but Jerry Sandusky is plenty famous and anyone who follows college football knows who he is, which is exactly why Penn State continued to use him to raise money and recruit players. The Sandusky angle has gotten plenty of coverage but there are other angles to the story as well. An iconic head coach and president of a major university being fired for covering up child molestation are stories that are simply going to be covered. Two highly ranked conference rivals are going to be covered, especially in lieu of everything else.
Citizen
What about all the other child rapes in the country?
Governor
Precisely. I don’t follow college football. He’s a db child molester. He did something blah, blah, college football, blah blah…he’s a child molester. Hey Jerry Sandusky, I know you now. You rape boys in showers. I’m sorry, showers that are used by successful college football teams which makes them different somehow.
Guess what? I have child rapists in my town too. I hate them and want to bury them under the nearest jail. But they didn’t coach beloved post-teens to throw around an inflated mass of swine flesh. I hate this guy and want him off my TV, radar, etc.
Administrator
I won't happen because the story concerns more than child rapists...it's covering the very serious subject of a pervasive habit of institutions and other interested parties covering up for paedophiles due to self-interests that allow these disgusting people to continue operating. What Penn State did here is the issue of concern. It's a play right out of the Catholic Church, and it's not just limited to them. For example, I went to a private prep school for high school. It was affiliated with the Catholic Church but independent. Yet:
New Abuse Is Alleged at Malvern Prep Authorities Are Investigating a Students Accusation of Sexual Misconduct against a Priest at the Chesco School, by Kathleen Brady Shea and Jonathan Gelb, Philadelphia Inquirer, January 15, 2003. . .
"With the crimes that went on here, you'd think these other priests - instead of backing him up - would be out here talking to us," said Lt. Anthony Fluegel of the Pocono Mountains Regional Police, who was a lead detective on the Cochrane case. "Instead, they stuck together and backed each other up.
"There was not one priest from the order or the school that was willing to talk to us. They definitely circled the wagons."
Fluegel and the prosecutor in the case, Sherri A. Stephan, who no longer works in the Monroe County District Attorney's Office, said that law-enforcement officials were shocked when they were told not to attend a meeting with school alumni held shortly after Father Cochrane's arrest, Aug. 6, 1999. The purpose of the meeting was to allow alumni to pass on information or make complaints. A source close to the school said the Monroe investigators were not prohibited from attending the session, but were told they would not be allowed speak.
"I really had a hard time getting a feel for whether we were getting all the information [from the school]," Stephan said. "Anytime we tried to get information about other students, it never went anywhere." . . .
IMO and certainly many others, what Joe Paterno and others did here ought to be criminalised, and it's a major gap in the laws that such people can effectively try to conceal such conduct and even preserve such a predator where he is to rape kids repeatedly because they want to protect the institution from reputation and financial harm. The publicity seems to be having this needed effect:
Corbett predicts changes in reporting child abuse
Pennsylvania governor: Change law after Penn State scandal - CNN
It should be the law to require reporting credible claims of child abuse to the authorities when in any official capacity concerning the trust of such children, and failing to do so will be a crime akin to an accessory after the fact, etc.
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