It’s getting to the point where I’m no longer interested in reading the Detroit Free Press, especially when it comes to the opinions of Mitch Albom regarding police procedures. He thinks it’s wrong to have a camera crew tagging along with our Men in Blue, that it’ll somehow influence their actions. He writes: What on earth is a television crew doing in this mix? This is real life. Real bullets. Real blood. Real funerals … scribble scribble scribble blah blah blah. This after writing: Let me repeat a few words … police, murder, gun, dies. (Full Article Here)
You, Sir Mitch, have never worked in Law Enforcement, so why the Monday morning quarterbacking? Why not inform the gang bangers and their families about the reality of THEIR actions. A 7-year old girl is dead because of a murderous thug. Why focus on the methods of a special police task force unit? Why the implied belief regarding a grandmother’s statement that she never touched the police officer whose handgun accidentally discharged? She (through her blind eye) was protecting a killer. She (through her blind eye) was oblivious to the stolen cars in the backyard. She saw nothing; until now. Now she has a high profile lawyer drooling over the possible “footage” implicating the cops. Now they’re looking to get paid.
You, Sir Mitch, want us to believe that the filming of such events clouds the judgment and actions of the police. You, Sir Mitch, are assuming these specially trained men want their every move, every decision, documented for all to see. Nevermind that they're risking their lives to get dangerous criminals off the streets. You, Sir Mitch, need to stick to sporting events; from what I’ve heard (and read), you can spin one hell of a story—even when you’re not at the game but say you are. Stick to your nonfiction, and please, please, please, make it truthful because your fiction is flat-out lousy.
About the picture: After several sightings and complaints about one huge ass bullfrog terrorizing my wife’s pond, she said, “You need to get him out of here. He’ll eat all our fish, toads, and peepers.”
“Consider it done,” I replied.
10 comments:
Why is it that all documentaries always end with a question?
I have watched a hundred of them, and at the end there is no resolution. Just a question mark.
Politically incorrect here, cause I really love the French-- but how about a documentary to determine whether it is true that in Quebec they have frogs who cut down trees.
Ah yes, Tuesdays with Ivan. No question marks left unturned. Tim-berrrrr!
"Makes you wonder if it was really Tuesdays with Morrie. Maybe it was another day of the week that didn't scan so well as a book title. Did he see Morrie at all? Or did they just plan on getting together? And what inspirational words would old Morrie say about this mess?"
It's my fault. I planned on being there.
Mateen Cleaves
Ah, the pseudo-celebrity mouthpiece, spouting "wisdom" with no basis in reality.
(Lovely frog!)
Yeah, that frog could be the next Godzilla man. Good thing you got him now. ALthough if you'd let him grow maybe he would have eaten this Mitch bitch.
Unfortunately, the words of journalists are often taken as gospel. I have become wary of newspaper, television and radio reports.
(that is one heck of a bullfrog!)
“I don’t think that anyone would deny that having a camera when you’re doing a ridealong like that affects behavior,” Michigan Governor Granholm said. “I think it’s not a good practice.”
ITV Studios, the production company behind A&E’s “The First 48” that was along on the raid, gave their tapes to Detroit and Michigan State Police investigators, the producers said last week.
“The First 48” began chronicling the Detroit Police Special Response Team in 2006.
Source: Detroit Free Press
His fiction reeks, yet he sells millions of copies. Heavy sigh.
Yeah, people love to bash the cops...until we need them to save our asses.
That is one awesome bullfrog.
Nothing like the bullfrog pulpit . . .
Mitch is, indeed, a bad writer. But a well paid & well ass-kissed-kiss-ass bad writer. Good for you for calling him out.
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