Low-speed car chase involving $100K Bentley in L.A.

More from the WhiteBentley twitter account:
RT @BreakingNewsOn: Los Angeles PD official confirms there is no celebrity inside the white Bentley; standoff continues. -> WTF?!?!?!

The response:
Let's add it up. 432 Twitter followers. 50 television cameras. 25 police cars. I am a celebrity, bitch!

 

Reading the twitter posts is truly sad and pathetic. I shudder that so many news orgs have adopted these things as "tools."

 

Nah, what's even more pathetic is the TV anchors on KABC who said, "People are speculating that it's ... a person of significance. We're not going to mention ... who it is, who they're speculating about, because it's just ... speculation. But a lot of people are twittering [sic] and they think, we're not going to name names, but they think that it might be, the speculation is ... that it's a person ... of significance."

I'm sick of media types who seem so desperate to be a part of their "hip" audience, but not having a clue how to use the tools.

If you don't know what Twitter is, then don't acknowledge it in a half-hearted way on the air. Otherwise, you come off looking pathetic.

 

I don't think the ABC anchors are guilty of wanting to be hip, or not knowing about Twitter (Twittering is a verb I've heard before), as much as they're guilty of holding off on mentioning just who the person of significance allegedly is.

They're really going out of their way to avoid putting a name out there. Playing it too safe, in my view.

 

SWAT trucks on the scene; cops at the car.

 

Well, if they were hip, they'd know the verb is "tweeting".

And I don't have a problem with them not mentioning a name. After all, they haven't confirmed that fact (and neither have the cops, etc.) That's basic journalism and Twitter is not journalism.

What I have a problem with is: if media organizations want to be a part of the Twitter community (or whatever other new and hip online tool they just discovered), then be a part of it. Don't half-ass it, and start a profile without knowing how to use it or by using it sparingly. As it is, KABC has been covering this story since 8 p.m. and have exactly one "tweet" about it, and that was more than an hour ago.

It just smacks of "we've got a new tool! let's twitter!"

Except, umm, nobody's quite sure what to do with it. Just makes 'em look desperate, IMO.

 

He's gotta be dead. The cops are backing off without dragging someone out with them.

 

Yep. TV says the cops "are not in a tactical position." Both doors are open now and they're just milling around.

EDIT: Now my video feed from KABC just went off.

 

Yeah. Yay for live feeds on TV news websites.

I'm sure by the time I wake up, there will be a zoomed-in video of the final moments.

 

and insert somber sounding anchor trying to act like they're trying not to be exploiting a tragedy (here)

 

Fox 11 still has a feed up online, with a producer or somebody talking (not sure if she realizes the mic is on.)

They just brought the driver on a stretcher into the ambulance. She said, "well, they're not working on him."

 

http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/news/Bentley_Stopped_after_Pursuit

Dead.