Comments on: North Dakota man lets dog die in hot car at “Idol” auditions in Denver

By: News Briefs: Susan Boyle, Ben Stiller, and CSI: NY | Review Favorite TV Shows

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:57:01 +0000

[...] … President Obama will hold a primetime news conference — his fourth — on Wednesday, July 22 at 9 p.m. EDT. Ever tech-savvy, the White House announced the event via Twitter. [via CBS News] … Susan Boyle, the world’s favorite singing Brit, has granted her first in-depth interview since appearing on Britain’s Got Talent to Meredith Vieira of NBC’s Today show. NBC will use the appearance — in which Boyle dishes on her overnight rise to fame, her voice, and her next move — to promote America’s Got Talent. [via Media Decoder] … John Goodman will star in The Station, a Fox comedy pilot that — despite its name — has nothing to do with trains. The show, a project from Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films, features a team of CIA operatives tasked with installing a new dictator in a South American banana republic. [via Variety] … CSI: NY has cast Sarah Carter (Shark) in a new regular role. Carter will play a clean-up tech who’s hoping to work in the crime lab someday. “We’ll find out later in the season that she’s hiding a secret,” says Entertainment Weekly writer Michael Ausiello. [via The Ausiello Files] … Billy Mays’s unbridled enthusiasm for As-Seen-on-TV products like the Sham Wow and the Slap Chop will live on even in the wake of his recent death. His last commercial — in which he shills for Mighty Tape — will air in August. [via TMZ] … TNT doesn’t need no stinkin’ reality show. Dark Blue, its brand-new cop drama, drew 3.5 million viewers during its Wednesday-night debut; the show is part of the network’s seemingly successful strategy to offer viewers respite from reruns and reality TV. [via Variety] … Even Paula might have something mean to say about this one: A North Dakota man has been charged with animal cruelty after leaving his dog to die in the car while his girlfriend tried out for American Idol during the show’s recent auditions in Denver. The pup — who was abandoned in the vehicle for nine hours on a 91-degree day — didn’t stand a chance. [via American Idol Buzz] [...]

By: plow

plow — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:59:52 +0000

Should he be tried and convicted like Mike Vick?

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:03:22 +0000

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By: Nana

Nana — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:01:57 +0000

Good Morning Everybody!!!!!!!!!

Today’s Quote: “Everything’s in the mind. That’s where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.”

I trust that everyone had a great week-end and are now ready to face another week.

So sad about Walter Cronkite. As it has already been said on here, he was the greatest newscaster ever. I will never forget the day that JFK was killed and the tears that rolled down WC face as he reported it. Also when he reported the death of MLK and Bobby Kennedy. His emotions were just as true and sincere as anyone’s.

What a shame that the young man had no common sense in keeping that poor dog in a hot car. All it takes, is for everyone to excerise common sense to prevent tragedies from occurring. For anyone to be negligent is unacceptable. Maybe he just suffered from neurasthenia.

By: Rodney Ho

Rodney Ho — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:44:10 +0000

new blog entry up!

By: Heather MacDonald

Heather MacDonald — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:25:23 +0000

Like most news stories today, I agree with Highlander that it was poorly written. Burying the lede (not misspelled) is becoming more and more common and more and more frustrating to those of us who do know how to write. Most reporters today are not trained with the high level of excellence that used to be demanded. I often see glaring errors on the front page. Perhaps I could understand errors here and there in other (less important) sections, but the front page used to be reserved for the BEST reporters. They seem to be a dying breed.

Thanks for the kind words of welcome from all of you, by the way. They are much appreciated.

By: Highlander

Highlander — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:06:38 +0000

This story was very poorly written and leaves me confused regarding the facts.

“Quincy Vanderbilt, 24, was served Tuesday with a misdemeanor for animal cruelty after he let a small terrier die in a hot car while the OWNER’S (my caps) girlfriend waited to audition for “Idol” in Denver.”

That doesn’t identify HIM as the owner (although he WAS the idiot who caused the dog’s death) nor does it identify the girlfriend as the dog’s owner. The statement implies the owner was a third person. Otherwise it should have read “his small terrier” and “his girlfriend”. It’s not really clear whose dog it was or whose girlfriend she was. Is the word ‘owner’ supposed to be relating to the dog or the car??

By: Dorothy Davis

Dorothy Davis — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:34:27 +0000

About her dog….did she tell him not to leave the dog in the car? If not, they both should be charged with neglect and “murder” of an innocent animal and do some hard time. Do not own a pet if you are so into yourself you have no love to give!

By: Deirdre

Deirdre — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:02:59 +0000

His Vietnam stance came only after he prefaced his opinion with the statement that he was giving an opinion. He did not offer his opinion as news. He did not offer his opinion as fact. He offered it as his belief. That’s a BIG difference from the way “beliefs” are issued by anchor men and women today. He avoided allowing his opinion to color the news he was reporting. Today, many news anchors find it almost impossible to report the news without infusing it with their own personal prejudices.

His reactions to JFK’s assassination, the punching of Dan Rather during the Democrat convention in ‘68, the landing on the moon in ‘69 were all visceral, mirroring the viewer’s reactions to these events. His reactions were not calculated to change our minds, to motivate our thinking or to “educate” us as to how we Should be thinking. They were simply a human response to the horror, the shock or the wonder of these events.

And LBJ was right. If even Walter Cronkite could no longer keep his opinion of Vietnam to himself, then he was in deep doodoo!

His opposition to the invasion of Iraq came long after his retirement.

By: Mercedes S.

Mercedes S. — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:06:17 +0000

Forgot to add the famous LBJ quote: “If I’ve lost Cronkite on Vietnam, I’ve lost Middle America”.