Climbing Accidents and the Media

[Cpt.Caveman]

catbirdseat said:

Cpt.Caveman said:

Necronomicon was a cordial gentlemen both times I have met the man. Although we are at different spectrums in political views I even burned a bowl with him on the Coleman Glacier once within minutes of meeting him.

 

I can fully understand where he is coming from with his comments. However I am not in agreement with his comments about NEWSCHICK.

I find it difficult to understand how or why some people can totally abandon their sense of civility and decency when they go online. I've heard others say that Necro is a good climbing partner and an agreeable person. Sure, there are people who take on alternate "persona" for their personal amusement, but this is a very serious and solemn occasion.

 

Climbers and people in general are always going to be interested in accident reports. It reminds us that we are all mortal and live only one small mistake away from a similar fate.

 

catbirdseat,

 

You have not seen any response about it. Dont portray Justin as some morbid asshole which I am sure he is not.

 

I can see no area above where it appears he is portraying some negative persona.

 

I think you might both agree on many situations. To portray him as evil is comical. Do what you want.

 

He is a respectable man and if you dont agree with his beliefs fine. Dont attack him from a sideshow.

[catturdeat]

catbirdseat said:

Cpt.Caveman said:

Necronomicon was a cordial gentlemen both times I have met the man. Although we are at different spectrums in political views I even burned a bowl with him on the Coleman Glacier once within minutes of meeting him.

 

I can fully understand where he is coming from with his comments. However I am not in agreement with his comments about NEWSCHICK.

I find it difficult to understand how or why some people can totally abandon their sense of civility and decency when they go online. I've heard others say that Necro is a good climbing partner and an agreeable person. Sure, there are people who take on alternate "persona" for their personal amusement, but this is a very serious and solemn occasion.

 

 

You're basing your statements on an assumption that I would interact differently with NEWSTIPS in person than I would in this forum. You are mistaken, as anyone who knows me well will confirm. You could also ask the editors and reporters in the Bellingham Herald newsroom, for whom I ripped new assholes over their recent report of the death of a friend. You could ask the KOMO reporter I ripped into for fifteen minutes at a SAR for a lost snowboarder, after she asked me if I could point out any family members of the missing. You could ask the KOMO technician I layed into when they came to our town to report on a baseball bat beating.

 

Additionally, I don't find it amusing. It makes me feel sick to my stomach. But I see it as my righteous duty to express my beliefs to these people. NEWSTIPS claims that's she's one of the good guys, just as most of her colleagues would. But she is still part of the system that I despise. I know I'll get slammed for this comparison, but I'll make it anyways: I'm sure that some of the German beurecrats that helped to exterminate 9 million people were good hearted and well meaning, but the sum of their efforts was an atrocity.

 

 

 

[Sphinx]

catturdeat said:

catbirdseat said:

Cpt.Caveman said:

Necronomicon was a cordial gentlemen both times I have met the man. Although we are at different spectrums in political views I even burned a bowl with him on the Coleman Glacier once within minutes of meeting him.

 

I can fully understand where he is coming from with his comments. However I am not in agreement with his comments about NEWSCHICK.

I find it difficult to understand how or why some people can totally abandon their sense of civility and decency when they go online. I've heard others say that Necro is a good climbing partner and an agreeable person. Sure, there are people who take on alternate "persona" for their personal amusement, but this is a very serious and solemn occasion.

 

 

You're basing your statements on an assumption that I would interact differently with NEWSTIPS in person than I would in this forum. You are mistaken, as anyone who knows me well will confirm. You could also ask the editors and reporters in the Bellingham Herald newsroom, for whom I ripped new assholes over their recent report of the death of a friend. You could ask the KOMO reporter I ripped into for fifteen minutes at a SAR for a lost snowboarder, after she asked me if I could point out any family members of the missing. You could ask the KOMO technician I layed into when they came to our town to report on a baseball bat beating.

 

Additionally, I don't find it amusing. It makes me feel sick to my stomach. But I see it as my righteous duty to express my beliefs to these people. NEWSTIPS claims that's she's one of the good guys, just as most of her colleagues would. But she is still part of the system that I despise. I know I'll get slammed for this comparison, but I'll make it anyways: I'm sure that some of the German beurecrats that helped to exterminate 9 million people were good hearted and well meaning, but the sum of their efforts was an atrocity.

 

BTW, got banned, did you?

[Cpt.Caveman]

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[catturdeat]

Ray,

I was directing my last comments towards catbirdseat, not you.