[BC] Broadcasters and their community

[Alan Kline]

Last week, we had a local controversy when a minister posted his Sunday 
sermon topic on the marquee in front of his church. The topic was, "Gay 
is Not OK".

He had to change it after a bunch of anonymous cowards made threats 
against him and his family.

What kind of society have we come to? When people can think they can 
intimidate people into silence with threats of violence, something is 
very, very wrong. (And please note that I'm not making comment on the 
minister's sign, only the reaction...)

The reporter who did the stories on teen drinking was doing exactly what 
a reporter *should* be doing--reporting the news! What do those idiot 
families expect her to do? Another fawn-over-the-latest-new-star piece 
of nonsense?

ak

On 2/17/2012 6:42 AM, Sid Schweiger wrote:
> You beat me to it.  The hypocrites are the entitled teens for whom discipline and respect are unknown, and their entitled and enabling parents whose children never do anything wrong.  The reporter pulled up the curtain on these people and exposed them to public view, not to mention the other enablers, the liquor store owners and clerks who can't be bothered to check ID's (for which, in every jurisdiction with which I'm familiar, they could lose their business licenses).  Like it or not, the drinking age in the US is 21, and given the behavior of the teens who attacked/threatened the reporter, it's probably better that way.
>
> The issue isn't whether or not drug and alcohol law enforcement are right or wrong.  In my view we have obviously learned nothing from prohibition, save that our government seems to have this uncontrollable urge to regulate individual vices, regardless of whether or not the exercise of those vices violates the rights of others.  Rather, the issue is whether the reporter "got what she deserved."  She did not.