Another victim of the press dies

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<p><a href=“http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2007/08/29/jewell_0830.html[/url]”>http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2007/08/29/jewell_0830.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Yeah, barrons, I was listening to that on the radio in the car on the way home. Such a sad character. Just goes to show how we are so wuick to crucify people in the court of public opinion. I suspect poor Mr Jewell turned to food to lick his emotional wounds. He was big before, but current photyos sho him to be quite large-- and apparently he didn’t have his diabetes under good control. Sad. 44 yrs old. But, maybe there is a bright side (well, sorta…) maybe this’ll take the local news heat offa Vick for a little while.</p>

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<p>Updated story with more details.</p>

<p><a href=“http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap-obit-jewell&prov=ap&type=lgns[/url]”>http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap-obit-jewell&prov=ap&type=lgns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>why is this just the presses fault, why not a society that wants quick answers,</p>

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<p>The press gives us what we want to her. If it bleed, it leads, as they say in the news industry.</p>

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<p>He died of obesity. It’s sad.</p>

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<p>in today’s world, he would be in some place with no lawyer, no chance to show he was innocent, no habeaus corpus, he at least had the chance to be proven innocent, some leaders these days wouldn’t have even given him that chance</p>

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<p>Weenie-
Sorry to nit-pick, but I believe he died of complications from diabetes and kidney failure. While it was most likely secondary to his obesity, it wasn’t a direct result of obesity.
However, seeing “obesity” and “weenie” (which always makes me think of teenie-weenie, not a weiner) in the same post made me smile. thanks for not changing your screenname, weenie!</p>

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<p>He was more a victim of the FBI than of the press. They were the ones who fingered him and fed his name to the press.</p>

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<p>Update- He died of a heart attack.</p>

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<p>The press were the ones that printed the theories of his hero complex and were successfully sued for printing lies.l</p>

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<p>“The press gives us what we want to her. If it bleed, it leads, as they say in the news industry.”</p>

<p>Then we must have it in for “the angry white man”, the “angry white loser”, and the “angry rich white lacrosse player” That is usually where the press goes looking for a villain when they haven’t a clue. </p>

<p>The odd thing is even when there is an “angry white man” to be found like at Centennial Park the press bags the wrong one thus disproving the old adage that even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in a while.</p>

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<p>The FBI threw him to the wolves, and you are trying to blame that on the wolves.</p>

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<p>From a recent article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution:

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<p>If we can trust the media, what they are saying is that they admit printing info based on “scanty information”. They own the mistake, even though their source was the FBI. Here’s the link to the full article in the AJC <a href=“http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/08/30/obit_jewell.html?cxntlid=inform[/url]”>http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/08/30/obit_jewell.html?cxntlid=inform&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Printing exaggerations, distortions, and even outright falsehoods is what I expect of the press. They’ve been doing that for hundreds of years. I expect a rather higher standard of conduct and respect for truth and the rights of individuals from the FBI. Perhaps my expectations have been misplaced.</p>

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<p>^^^^ I do think your expectations are a tad misplaced, coureur. Here’s but one of many examples of the FBI’s “higher standard of conduct” <a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070830/ap_on_re_us/coretta_scott_king_fbi[/url]”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070830/ap_on_re_us/coretta_scott_king_fbi&lt;/a&gt;
Both the FBI and the media should own the barbequing of Richard Jewell.</p>

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<p>It’s a sad day for the Republic when a citizen can expect no higher standard of ethics and conduct from federal law enforcement officers than he can from the wretched press.</p>

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<p>coureur-
You mean we can’t trust the media or the government? Shocker!!</p>

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<p>^If by the “government” you mean politicians, I agree - they are as lousy as the press. But the notion that we aren’t supposed to expect the FBI (supposedly law enforcement professionals, not appointed political hacks) to be any better than the bottom-of-the-barrel press is pretty disappointing.</p>

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<p>coureur-
Unfortunately the FBI has had many supposed nefarious characters on its radar screen throughout the years (case in point the article on Coretta Scott King I linked above). I recall reading somewhere, in the days of J. Edgar Hoover, that many students who marched for the moratorium against the Vietnam war, were on the FBI “watch” list. Is big brother watching us???</p>

<p><em>edit</em>* From wikipedia on J. Edgar Hoover:

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