Teens harrass TV reporter who reported on underage drinking

They might have shitty motives, but it doesn't change that it's a pretty explosive story.

 

Explosive? Teenagers drink, teenagers fuck, news at 11.

 

Yeah, but businesses and their employees shouldn't be in the business of facilitating that.

 

The story is not that teens drink, it's that a package store sells to them indiscriminately.

To me, all bullshit aside, this is community journalism.

 

I hope their next stories are about men abusing their wives, people getting flashed close to the college, DWIs on a Saturday night and all the other things that fill a police report every day. They are all crimes, but they happen so often that they are not newsworthy.

I wonder if people gamble in DC or use drugs?

 

My lord, how old are you?

It's an incredible epidemic. It's not just popping a few brews. I'm 35, so maybe I am just an old guy with 2 young children, but the level of abuse of alcohol pales to what I remember growing up. We would sneak off and down some booze, or in college get hammered on cheap beer the older guy bought.

But, high school kids every weekend? Incredibly unsafe. It's these stories are the reason you have local news. Or, do we only do the stories if someone dies?

Really, what would you think if these were your children, or worse, your children's friends?

 

Yes, high school kids every weekend. I am little older than you and kids were getting hammered every weekend when I was in school.

 

And of course you believe that makes it all right.

 

Did I say that? Calling it an epedemic is ridiculous.

Of course, you are the one that believed it was unrealistic that a football team on Friday Night Lights missed curfew and was drinking.

 

This whole thread just reminds me that my 21st can't come soon enough.

 

Chingy agrees with this lady.

 

Are you serious? You're 35 and, which means you were a teenager more or less when I was, and you really believe that teen drinking is markedly worse than it was 15-20 years ago?

That's why I dislike the media "epidemic"-of-the-week stories. Because some people actually take them seriously. Don't confuse scary anecdotes with real evidence. Although there may be year-to-year blips, every long-term survey shows teen drinking is declining.

(Why that is, or whether that's even something worth celebrating, is another debate).

And to address the other points on the thread: No, the TV reporter's kids shouldn't be harassed. But I have a limited reservoir of sympathy to go around, and I tend to concentrate on starving children or victims of injustice, not TV reporters doing sweeps stories.