Woman Found Dead at Oscar Pistorius' Home

[Caliga]

Journalism is a business, mongers.

[fhdz]

Really?

Really. When they float something like this to see if we'll bite, more often than not we do.

And that's a good thing ?

I'm not placing a value judgment on it at the moment, just noting that it's not necessarily a one-way street like your post seemed to indicate. The media would not sensationalize if we said "fuck you, I'm switching media outlets" every time they tried to do so.

[Eddie Teach]

Why is this story getting so much news coverage, over here on several different channels it's been the main news story for several days ?

For me, I guess it's a good litmus test for lazy journalism and news programmes that have given up their news gathering ethos, preferring to peddle sensationalism and little more than celebrity gossip, rather than the important things going on in the world.

They do this because we - the viewing public - have told them and keep telling them this is the stuff we want.

Speak for yourself. I tell them I want scripted dramas and nature shows.

[mongers]

Really?

Really. When they float something like this to see if we'll bite, more often than not we do.

And that's a good thing ?

I'm not placing a value judgment on it at the moment, just noting that it's not necessarily a one-way street like your post seemed to indicate. The media would not sensationalize if we said "fuck you, I'm switching media outlets" every time they tried to do so.

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People should be told about the wider world and what's important and what isn't.

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*public service broadcasting

[jimmy olsen]

[Caliga]

TOO SOON 

[alfred russel]

Supposedly the Olympics has one of the toughest drug testing standards, and the story is out that Pistorius had boxes of performance enhancing drugs in his home. I love watching the Olympics, especially the running events (as I run quite a bit myself), but I think if you need to suspend disbelief a bit when watching the events--I wouldn't be shocked if it turned out that the entire 100m mens finals field was doping.

[alfred russel]

But I think an interesting point of view is that if the Olympics have very tough standards that can be flouted, what does that say about American sports, where you not only have much easier standards but the labor unions fight tooth and nail over any attempt to increase testing?

[Admiral Yi]

I feel sorry for the schlemiel who bought the movie rights. 

[garbon]

Supposedly the Olympics has one of the toughest drug testing standards, and the story is out that Pistorius had boxes of performance enhancing drugs in his home. I love watching the Olympics, especially the running events (as I run quite a bit myself), but I think if you need to suspend disbelief a bit when watching the events--I wouldn't be shocked if it turned out that the entire 100m mens finals field was doping.

Well they actually ate a little crow and admitted they still don't have the results back on the drugs they took from his bathroom.

Also it looks like he wasn't actually tested at the Olympics.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2013/02/20/oscar-pistorius-case-issue-drug-testing/1934433/

Since he was not a top-five finalist in his two events and not selected randomly, Pistorius wasn't tested during the Olympics, the International Olympic Committee told Agence France-Presse. More than 5,000 tests were conducted in London.

[DGuller]

Supposedly the Olympics has one of the toughest drug testing standards, and the story is out that Pistorius had boxes of performance enhancing drugs in his home. I love watching the Olympics, especially the running events (as I run quite a bit myself), but I think if you need to suspend disbelief a bit when watching the events--I wouldn't be shocked if it turned out that the entire 100m mens finals field was doping.

Hopefully some Jamaican runner shoots someone in their home as well, maybe then we'll get to the bottom of the improbable success of Usain Bolt.

[alfred russel]

Supposedly the Olympics has one of the toughest drug testing standards, and the story is out that Pistorius had boxes of performance enhancing drugs in his home. I love watching the Olympics, especially the running events (as I run quite a bit myself), but I think if you need to suspend disbelief a bit when watching the events--I wouldn't be shocked if it turned out that the entire 100m mens finals field was doping.

Well they actually ate a little crow and admitted they still don't have the results back on the drugs they took from his bathroom.

Also it looks like he wasn't actually tested at the Olympics.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2013/02/20/oscar-pistorius-case-issue-drug-testing/1934433/

Since he was not a top-five finalist in his two events and not selected randomly, Pistorius wasn't tested during the Olympics, the International Olympic Committee told Agence France-Presse. More than 5,000 tests were conducted in London.

So what would be a more dream crushing story?

--What currently happened (Pistorius murders girlfriend after losing in Olympics)
--Pistorius wins gold, and then fails drug test

I'm talking about how the story would play in the media; obviously for his girlfriend the current story would be hard to top indeed.

[Viking]

I think the best plot would be the one where blade runner kills the replicant with supermodel good looks who thinks she is human before she realizes that she neither ages and is about to die like all other replicants at age 5 as an act of love.

Or... he kills her when he finds out she is a replicant sent to insinuate herself into blade runners life as a mole to help escaped replicants avoid his just wrath.

[Razgovory]

I feel sorry for the schlemiel who bought the movie rights. 

You can still make the film, it's just going to be different kind of film then they originally intended.

[Zanza]

So what would be a more dream crushing story?

--What currently happened (Pistorius murders girlfriend after losing in Olympics)
--Pistorius wins gold, and then fails drug test

I'm talking about how the story would play in the media; obviously for his girlfriend the current story would be hard to top indeed.

A world famous sports celebrity that is a doper is not really unusual. A world famous sports celebrity that is a murderer is unusual, definitely the bigger story in the media.