Comments on: Blogger arrested for murder

By: Brother Bark

Brother Bark — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:25:33 +0000

It’s a touch odd to mention “blogger”, then “murder”, in that order. Shouldn’t it be “the news of a man who has been accused of the slow murder of his wife stirred some excitement in the blogger community in which the accused had been participating”? Admittedly, it’s long-winded, but it also doesn’t vaguely imply that blogging is linked to ugly betrayal.

Precision in language is a desirable goal.

By: Scott Butki

Scott Butki — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:23:12 +0000

that second link no longer works, Jeff. Was the second the one about the woman killing her mother?

By: Andi

Andi — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:08:45 +0000

Stop with your generalizations, my website is not a blog and I’m proud of my heritage as an itinerant commenter. There have not been any documented murders by blog commenters and enduring a murder trial as a commenter would be very tedious so I shall remain a non-murderer and non-blogger by choice.

By: Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:16:18 +0000

Uh, Steve…. Don’t get any ideas, you hear?

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 14:54:52 +0000

“Subhead: And Bloggers Comment.”

LOL.

By: Steve Mays

Steve Mays — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 14:05:30 +0000

Mr. Keown had not been blogging long but he seemed to have a knack for it. It would seem he is facing a long ordeal and the blogger in me can’t help but wondering what it would be like to blog my way through a first degree murder trail. Has there ever been such a blog? Perhaps blogging would be the last thing on my mind but I could imagine slipping notes to my lawyer and asking her to post them. Probably not a good legal strategy but one could imagine interesting Google ads.

By: Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:52:55 +0000

Subhead: And Bloggers Comment.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:24:40 +0000

Headline: Blogger Blogs about Blogger Arrested for Murder

By: Mumblix Grumph

Mumblix Grumph — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 12:55:15 +0000

I’m sorry, HA…I take offense at the racial slur, “whitey”. My heritage is one of pride and accomplishments. Did you know white people invented toilet paper? Look it up if you don’t believe me. When Neil Armstrong walked on the moon it was white people who put the Tang in the little plastic bags.

Stop with your hate and use the proper term Caucasoid-American-Of-Vaguely-European-Ancestory.

Don’t make me tap my foot and glare at you.

By: HA

HA — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 11:47:47 +0000

Jeff,

Blogging is a pastime of peace. Only a tiny minority of extremist bloggers actually kill their wives. Just because Keown killed his wife doesn’t show that all bloggers are wife killers any more than Timothy McVeigh shows that all blonde-haired, blue-eyed whiteys are terrorists.

Instead of stereo-typing bloggers, we should be looking for root causes for why Keown killed his wife. The anti-bloggerism of the dominant media has clearly driven bloggers to desperation. Instead of cracking down on bloggers and inflaming them to more extreme blogging, we should give them job training and affirmative action programs to so that they won’t be attracted to anti-social blogging and instead help them become productive members of society.

Mr. Keown is the real victim here of the dominant media power structure in 21st Century Amerikka.