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Yeah, I don't get why people were so mad at TMZ for reporting it. I mean, I get they want the privacy and not to find out from the news. But those days are gone. They've been gone for decades. Even before social media, but more so now.
Yeah. And as sad as it is, it might be better this way. If news organizations waited, there could be Internet rumors running wild for hours.
Yeah it is. Wish the basketball world could find away to recognize these young ladies.
Not to sound uncaring given your personal situation, but I am guessing you and your kids are not considered public figures and thus there would be a much greater attempt to withhold names and information.
Don't know that one way is better than another for such news. We use to have established proprieties and it is likely well to follow them, but in the end it is the news which devastates, not the messenger, or so I tend to believe.
What's the backstory on this? Other than the TV show and them being a network of paparazzi, I don't know much about them. Do they do Nightcrawler type stuff?
True, nobody wants to be the laughing stock of facebook because they were sleepy at the time.
Yeah, I think the most important thing is to have the person in a controlled environment and not, you know, driving and have a google or twitter notification hit their phones about a loved one. Or walking on a bridge or something. You don't want the tragedy compounded by an uncontrolled release of information.
I hear you and agree with you, but it is what it is. On the flip side, if a reporter / manger / editor withheld a story to be more sensitive to the survivors and waited for the families to be notified for a story of this magnitude, then all of those people would be out of a job. That's what they do. Like defense lawyers that represent criminals. That's what they get paid for, right or wrong, for better or for worse.
Was there a time when this was handled by clergy? Not relevant to me as I eschew such institutions, just wondering.
From what i've read heli pilots saying, even if they are trained to fly on instruments they rarely if ever do it in copters. If weather is bad to the point they would need to use instruments they don't fly.
Shaq says the loved each others kids like their own. They really did love each other and each other's families. And Gigi being born on the same day as Shaq's youngest. Wow.
Darn, I was thinking they were going to have a huge memorial for him... probably not enough time to plan.
Looking at the seating someone must have been riding shotgun in the front seat with the pilot.
Kobe's contract was a big reason for that. He was taking up almost 50% of the 2014 salary cap. Max contracts under the current CBA can't go above 35% of the total team cap.
Payne Stewart is another. That one was odd in that he was flying in the air for a few hours already dead until the plane ran out of fuel and crashed. He had just won the US Open too.
It's totally true from all reports.
If his wife did, why not us. Look at how he was with his family and all his non basketball contributions in his short life. He was given a second chance and ran with it.
