Re(9): Scripps Stock Tanks/Big Hit and Miss Posted on August 25, 2024 at 09:52:01 PM by just sayin...a little or a lot more.
There actually IS supposed to be a board admin but whoever used to do it has died or left the market or lost interest. Its been ten years or more since this rooms doxxers and haters were censored from talking about other shit besides broadcasting and bully people. Except for Jim and Me, maybe geezer, I think ths room has had a complete user turnover.
I was surprised the Mid-Kansas and STL boards were shut down by Gateway. Theyv'e always been about protecting their system operators. This one has no admin either, obviously to make people behave and avoid personal attacks and non broadcasting politics, etc.
Well if Jim's occasional bully friends notice the long threads here, when he and I exchange posts, his is always the last one...thats how many times I just roll my eyes and tune him out.
Sometimes he gets bored if I don't write, and he'd plagerize one of my old posts to get an argument started.
Sometimes I bite, sometimes I don't. You can see I usually don't. But one thing abt this room, it is public record, it's evidence and never hard for a cop with a subpoena to trace. Thats probably why he tries to be careful; I never said he was dumb, just hateful.
I've known enough shrinks and cops, they love to use their patients or cases changing their names but writing
interesting case studies in the trade journals. I learned a lot from the longtime coroner in Wichita, Dr Bill Eckert... his thing was mass murderers and assassins. That guy showed some slides of dead famous people I won't mention to his colleges at conventions when he was a speaker. As a trusted reporter, I got to see some pretty interesting things, like murder scenes and photos that couldn't make it on radio or TV. Fascinating stuff. Right out of "Quincy, Me." I did a few stories about him when I was in TV down there, but I couldn't use some of his coolest photos, which woudl have been national news.
Eckert, probably gone or VERY old now, had big city connections. One of his big cases was when two jumbo jets collided at Tenerife Island in the Pacific, killed most of the two jets' passengers, almost 600 people in both planes, and less than a hundred survivors. His job was to gather bodies and identify as many burned bodies as he could. An incredible story about a home town doctor. He was over there for weeks.
And he was up on all the mass murderers in the country up to that date by then, including the mysterious local BTK killer who had not yet been caught in Wichita. But he was involved in the cases as local coroner so was a very newsworthy guy.
Those were really fun days in journalism for news people and I love remembering back on the big ones. Since big corporations bought up all of radio and TV stations, it's not so fun anymore, except for close calls chasing tornadoes. We havent had a big plane crash but I was out of the market when the Holiday Inn Sniper was shooting the place up.
Like radio that's mostly too highly formatted to be creative except for the morning guys. Well we had a lot more reporter freedom back in the 80s in TV too. Just like radio was bought up by investors, so has been local television, where now, its not about journalism, its about profits. Thats when the thrill left local broadcasting. And thats when I lost interest in it. Replies: