Comments on: Old School

By: chance

chance — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:17:00 +0000

Geez. Have you people EVER taken a ride on Marta? Stuff like this happens from time to time. Just doesn’t get caught on video and posted on the internet. Come out of the suburbs for a moment. Better yet: take a ride on the subway in NYC. You’ll think this is normal.

By: Insider

Insider — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:18:01 +0000

Some “big media” had the whole story a week ago, including information that the woman was mentally ill, and chose not to cover it.

Mentally ill woman goes on a rant on a MARTA train. This is news? There is not a security issue here. How is MARTA to tell if someone riding public transportation is sane? There is not a mental health issue. Take your meds or this could be you? It’s an unfortunate incident that happened to be captured on camera. Thankfully, no one was hurt.

Doing this story is simply an excuse to exploit the woman’s condition by playing the video.

By: photog1601

photog1601 — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:31:34 +0000

ok,enough….how about this….SpaceyG? What is the story? The youtube video bounced around the StarShip several days before you bloggers picked up on it. We just could not figure out the Story. Nutso woman goes wacko on the Marta train…and Marta needs to respond how? its their fault how? The Battle-Star kicked into
time warp once Marta falls to so-called blog pressure.
She turned herself(or her family did-great family how about med help instead the hooskow) Give it a rest. The blog world is not banana-pudding for the electronic generation. We old farts in the old school due at least try to be balanced and not infect our rants with onesided views. Come down from the mountain before you get a nose bleed.
Photog1601
(the cool thing about my job…most people watch
history on the boob tube…I get to live it!)

By: rptrcub

rptrcub — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:04:13 +0000

Austin? Is that you? So apparently the Internets is still working from over in Disgusta….

By: Eugene

Eugene — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:56:12 +0000

Fence Sitter, you are soooo nutso if you cannot grasp what an incredulous blogger SpaceyG is! Man, you shouldn’t even be allowed on the Internets.

I’ll have to film it and put it on the youtubes. Maybe someone will show you how to click on it.

Don’t you get it?

By: Fence Sitter

Fence Sitter — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:42:11 +0000

Alright spaceyg, let’s try this again. In what way was the incident “crucial”?

It was not crucial simply because of the chatter it produced. Sensational perhaps, but not crucial. If the amount of chatter produced on the internet or morning radio determined what was truly crucial, then Amber Nicole Smith’s death would be considered the most important event in human history.

By: Sandra Rose

Sandra Rose — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:59:46 +0000

SpaceyG, I couldn’t have said it better.

By: spaceyg

spaceyg — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:39:34 +0000

Hmmm… “critical” might not have been the best choice of word, I agree. “Crucial” is more to the point, as the passionate and often heated conversations, droves of comments and video responses, etc. the video “generated” on the InterTubes and on “urban” radio did surely give off a whiff of the “crucial.”

But hey, that was just the “urban” community in Atlanta. Nothing to report there, eh? Just move along folks.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:47:52 +0000

>Bloggers can be awfully self-righteous…. bloggers can beat their chests as strenuously as any ladder-climbing TV news guy.

I think I’m beginning to see what you mean! And the condescension in the preceding comments is being laid on (layed on?)so thick it’s, well, it’s INCREDULOUS!

By: liveapartmentfire

liveapartmentfire — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:43:22 +0000

Thanks for the abuse, SG. I won’t dispute any of it, except this: In paragraph four, you describe this story as “critical.” What makes it critical? If there’s no video, there’s no story. With the video, it’s an isolated incident involving a disturbed woman who ultimately did no real harm.