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Iconoclastodon
09/02/09

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More disturbing than the occasional demand for payment, are the sadly not infrequent telephone calls I get from some polite person -- a murder victim's mother, someone abused by the justice system -- who wants to know how much it will cost to get a story in the paper.

That's how it works, isn't it? And they ask without any outrage, just a calm acceptance that just like the mayor, the police chief, and the local billionaire, they can get a news story, too -- if they just pay for it.

Disclosure: one time, I accepted a tamale.
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Weegee's bored
09/01/09

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Professional paddywagon chaser John Walsh has inserted himself into the California monster kidnapping case, saying the predictable things on Larry King. I suppose that Gloria Allred isn't far behind.I'm sorry that his little boy is gone and has been for years, but at some point the public caring starts to resemble a career. No doubt he's doing some good, but really ...For that matter, how much of a career did Jenny McCarthy have before she began scaring people with flat-out falsehoods about autism? And unlike Walsh, she's doing nothing but harm.

And who would have heard of Jerry Lewis in 50 years were it not for muscular dystrophy?Don't mean to be mean, but at some point the putative altruism becomes more like milking a cash cow.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
09/01/09

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that poor young woman; her captor was the father of her children. i can't even begin to imagine the depth of the horror.
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tailpipebananna
09/01/09

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it's all in the seriously underrated and now mostly forgotten film, 15 Minutes...watch it and be disgusted by the media
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lobstr
09/01/09

@tailpipebananna: so, suffice to say 15 Minutes has had its 15 Minutes? waka waka. srsly I wanna see it :p
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Weegee's bored
09/01/09

@tailpipebananna: Yes! Creepy, scary and brilliant.
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sparkyl
09/01/09

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HE'S sitting there suffering?! He as much admitted he wrote his son off years ago as crazy and hasn't had any contact with him. Sure charge everyone a butt load of money but put it into an account for Jaycee.
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MissNormaDesmond
09/02/09

@sparkyl: Nice idea. Never gonna happen.
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sarrible
09/01/09

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Thank you for not running the mugshot again. It's disgusting.
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