This is just plain stupid

What has that got to do with anything?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155972,00.html
from JoeUser Forums

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.

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Well, you have jouralists and then you have these vultures who give journalists a bad name. Yeah, it's pretty stupid.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top

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.

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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Maybe, but at this point is it really news?
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
must be slow news days if they are searching so hard for inflamitory info on an obviously ill woman.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
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)
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
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)


I would call most of that fluff, not news.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
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.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
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.
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
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.

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Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
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?
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
I guess it's just...pff... i dunno... a waste of time... And they get paid for it!
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
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!
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top

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.

Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top

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.

Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top

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.

Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top

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)

See previous post!  Thanks for providing the examples for it!

Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top

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

That is because we use common sense.  Something decidely lacking at the sites in question.

Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top

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

Supposedly (and since this comes from CBS, take it with a salt lick), neither is theirs.

Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top

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.

I had not thought of that angle!  Now, it is not only politicians, but anyone who gets their 15 minutes of fame (Andy Warhol)!

Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top

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

If you dont stop, I am going to run out of insightfuls!

Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top

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

The only other occupation that I see that gets paid for a waste of time is Politicians!  Guess the 4th estate is now like the other 3.

Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top

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!

Does make you wonder...........whatever happened to that girl that ran off to Africa to save Kerry?

Reply #23 from JoeUser Forums Top

And wasn't George Soros going to spend a year in a Tibetian Monastary if Bush got re-elected?

Isn't he?  Who has heard anything of him since his debacle?

Reply #24 from JoeUser Forums Top
Two burning questions remain;

Although she wound up in New Mexico, I remember hearing she ran off to Las Vegas...what did she do there ? Is her adventure there going to stay there?

In questioning her sanity, having looked at her picture, who would NOT think she is bonkers ? I mean look at those big ol' BUG EYES !!!!!
Reply #25 from JoeUser Forums Top
New York Times had a motto... ALL THE NEWS THAT"S FIT TO PRINT....

Today it could be.... ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS WE PRINT