The Rocky Mountain News liveblogs a toddler's funeral

Proving that they're on the cutting edge of social media, the Rocky Mountain News sent reporter Berny Morson to liveblog the funeral of a 3-year-old who was killed by an out-of-control car while he stood in line at an ice cream parlor...

Samples:

family member says marten is with grandmother who died last year. ' marten we loved you,' he says. People sobbing. about 9 hours ago from txt

video shows marten blowing out candles on birthday cake, marten with dog. last images are of headlines. about 8 hours ago from txt

people again are sobbing. rabbi again asks god to give marten everlasting life. about 8 hours ago from txt

family members shovel earth into grave about 7 hours ago from txt

Did this jackass really sit in the back of a funeral home with his Blackberry, text-messaging this to the Internet?!?!?!?

I figure that's good for, oh, about 1000 cancelled subscriptions by tomorrow night. And nationwide headlines.

Comments

[metroknow]

I'm tempted to buy a subscription, just so I can text message my cancellation. Disgusting.

[Jil]

I like how they refer to the SUV driver as an "illegal immigrant". Not trying to stir the pot too much, hmm?

[Samuel John Klein]

Apparently trying to push the envelope on the notion that there's no such thing as bad publicity.

There are just some things that shouldn't be live blogged or twitted. Never mind shame ... how about a little restraint?

I'd be interested to know why whoever gives Berny Morson his assignments thought this was humane ... or even human.

[liprap]

"tacky" (TACK-ee) adj. - descriptive word for anything less than polite, anything lacking in taste and refinement, and TEXT MESSAGING A FUNERAL AS A NEWS STORY.

I'm gonna petition the OED folks to get this one in as a definition. Just to let the world know how truly tacky such actions are.

[liprap]

"tacky" (TACK-ee) adj. - descriptive word for anything less than polite, anything lacking in taste and refinement, and TEXT MESSAGING A FUNERAL AS A NEWS STORY.

I'm gonna petition the OED folks to get this one in as a definition. Just to let the world know how truly tacky such actions are.

[jeffrey]

The world is becoming one big human zoo and we are all building the display cages.

[liprap]

Even Silicon Valley is appalled:

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/things-better-left-off-twitter-the-funeral-of-a-3-year-old-boy

[Nan]

Unbelievable. It goes way beyond tacky into absolutely appalling.

[nancy]

Here's the thing: you could have sent a reporter to write a beautiful story, not one that would have been intrusive, but observational; letting people speak should they have chosen (some need to, in the face of such horrific death), taking the emotional temperature and perhaps giving it some context. One that would have, maybe, in time, have made things better. But no; it's the quick slash, and makes people hate the press, as they should in this instance.

I would like to see the writer justify his actions. Has he?

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