FTR, I totally get what you are saying, Plei. I think without actually sensible, confirmed information, it is all speculative and sort of kneejerky.
Anyone hear from ita?
I don't really have a security blanket... unless you count Mr. Pointy.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Dec 14, 2012 1:39:22 pm PST #4564 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
P.M. Marc - Dec 14, 2012 1:39:51 pm PST #4565 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I'm sorry, but "audience for speculation" is a specious bit of bullshit.
Dude, Paul used to work in news. He worked in news for YEARS. It's really, really not. How do you think TV news *works*? The whole mindset is driven by what can get the eyes on them, what does the audience want. And it's only got worse over the last decade.
This is on both a local and national level.
P.M. Marc - Dec 14, 2012 1:42:17 pm PST #4566 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
And in its separate post
There is absolutely no negative impact to inquiring, and the implication that it's some kind of morbid impulse in baseless gossip is pretty far from my desire to get a handle on it.
I said in my follow up that I understand the impulse to try to wrap our heads around it. But wrapping our heads around it is not the same thing as saying, "hey, someone on ABS said it was Joe Schmoe in the basement with the lead pipe, and someone thinks they've found Joe's Facebook page."
Beverly - Dec 14, 2012 1:55:13 pm PST #4567 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Thanks for asking, Kat. I've been wondering about her, too.
I'm just...waving feebly, and not commenting on events of note.
Tom Scola - Dec 14, 2012 2:00:52 pm PST #4568 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
le nubian - Dec 14, 2012 2:06:08 pm PST #4569 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Supposedly the gunman's brother hadn't spoken to him since 2010. Do you think they have the same mother?
DavidS - Dec 14, 2012 2:10:03 pm PST #4570 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
But wrapping our heads around it is not the same thing as saying, "hey, someone on ABS said it was Joe Schmoe in the basement with the lead pipe, and someone thinks they've found Joe's Facebook page."
If people want to use Natter as a virtual newsroom, then I still don't see the problem. I got more and better information here, well ahead of the official reportage. I took advantage of the judgment, interest, discretion and superior newsfeeds of other Buffistae.
Aside from all that, it's really not a subject that needed a thread nanny. At all. Some people obviously were interested in talking about it, and we weren't talking about it in Beep Me.
Atropa - Dec 14, 2012 2:18:19 pm PST #4571 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
If people want to use Natter as a virtual newsroom, then I still don't see the problem.
Aside from all that, it's really not a subject that needed a thread nanny. At all. Some people obviously were interested in talking about it, and we weren't talking about it in Beep Me.
And with that, I am out of Natter for a while. Y'all can talk about it if you want, but I really don't want to read about it. I'm already avoiding all other news sources & blogs because I've hit information overload, and right now, reading the information and speculation doesn't make what happened any easier for me to understand or cope with.
msbelle - Dec 14, 2012 2:20:22 pm PST #4572 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
No one told you to zip it. no one thread nannied you.
DavidS - Dec 14, 2012 2:25:10 pm PST #4573 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
No one told you to zip it. no one thread nannied you.
Clearing your throat and going "Tut tut tut" and outright saying speculation is bad is trying to divert or kill the conversation.
Whatever. I don't need to parse it or pursue it. It was irritating to me and no more than that.