People Trying to Capitalize!

[harleyx]

KoreanAssasin

assassin is misspelled, so that's a typo. I don't think it would be morally correct to register a typo, since those bad spellers had intended to goto a different website.

Otherwise I'd be all over it though, you know. Cause I'm capitalistic and evil like that. Just not THAT evil.

 

[Gerry]

Grabbed Virginiaisfordying.com. Thanks Doc, Donation sent.

Thanks. Give me a little more time and the good folks here in the ER will come up with more.

We're some sick bastards and ignoring the patients.

 

[typist]

TheNewsMediaIsDoingItSoWhyCantI

Point taken. I fully agree with you, you can't legitimize any action just because "all the others are doing it, too".

****MoralsItsAllAboutTheMoola

Maybe. What I wanted to say is that, without knowing all details, I personally don't find it easy to judge others who legally registered a domain name, and who may be struggling to earn a living, like most people do. I definitely don't think it's easy to claim moral superiority if you earn a living in the same way, like mainstream journalists, who first raised the issue.

 

[Sarcle]

Point taken. I fully agree with you, you can't legitimize any action just because "all the others are doing it, too".

Well as I pointed out. Get people to stop feeding off of it and there will be no reason to blast it all over the entire world's airwaves for days and days and days.

But on second thought, I need to go buy more coke and sit down and see who has AIDS and how a suicide bomber killed 20 more people; just a sec, damn commercials, oh wait it's that funny commercial about how that chocolate bar falls in love with the ice-cream - it's so cute; great back to the killing.

 

[Gerry]

Point taken. I fully agree with you, you can't legitimize any action just because "all the others are doing it, too".



Maybe. What I wanted to say is that, without knowing all details, I personally don't find it easy to judge others who legally registered a domain name, and who may be struggling to earn a living, like most people do. I definitely don't think it's easy to claim moral superiority if you earn a living in the same way, like mainstream journalists, who first raised the issue.

No issue at all with the earlier post.

If people want to make this a moralistic play or a morals be damned issue, I can go either way.

To compare this to the Hollywood media circus of OJ and MJ is bizarre...celebrities charged with crimes vs. mass murder homicide victims...go figure.

Just give me credit for regging. We'll come up with more such as:

TheMorgueIsFull
JohnDoeJaneDoe

 

[typist]

JohnDoeJaneDoe

Careful.

Aaron Kornblum might label you a cybersquatter.

 

[Sarcle]

Just give me credit for regging.

Missing the the most obvious. Trying to be all inclusive.

deathsells.com
buydeath.com
givemesomedeath.com
UglyDeaths.com
HorribleEnd.com
deathfeed.com - Great for a constant IV of death RSS.

 

[Fearless]

Interestingly, I don't see these journalists ask the same questions about monetizing the same tragedy through massive advertising sales for print/tv/radio media. Or getting paid a salary for reporting.

Obviously, it's because these journalists and publishers make money on tragedies entirely by accident (sic), while they are all providing a public service. Domain investors, on the other hand, are a greedy bunch of cynical speculators...

Maybe. What I wanted to say is that, without knowing all details, I personally don't find it easy to judge others who legally registered a domain name, and who may be struggling to earn a living, like most people do. I definitely don't think it's easy to claim moral superiority if you earn a living in the same way, like mainstream journalists, who first raised the issue.

Great points. I can't empathize. I'm not someone struggling to earn a living. The media is profiting from this tragedy. Just like they did during Desert Storm. I watched that war 10 hours a day.
This discussion has me rethinking my position.

 

[typist]

available to register:

RoanokeGunStore.com

 

[Duckinla]

From Larry King show:

Larry: Did you see people killed?
Witness: Yes, unfortunately.
Larry: Did you see your teacher shot?
Witness: Yes I did
Larry: That'll leave you a memory. What was that like for you?
Witness: Blah, blah, terrible, hope nobody goes through it, blah blah.

Sensationalising? Domainers got nothing on Larry King. He's way better at this than we could ever hope to be.

 

[typist]

Larry King complains to anyone who'll listen that he would not have a job if he wouldn't do that kind of stories, to get the ratings up.

In the interview below he seems to place the blame with the competition and his publisher, as profit-making businesses, run by accountants and their concern for the bottom line.

I guess publishers and accountants will blame shareholders, who'll blame viewers, who'll again put the blame on journalists...*

SPIEGEL: Why don't you just refuse to do these tabloid stories?

King: Of course I could say no. But then they (the network) would say you've got to keep up with the ratings. And I do understand what they are facing. You win some, you lose some. But if they were to go too far, then I wouldn't do it. A colleague once told me that, "If I put a couple having intercourse on TV at 9 p.m., I could win tonight."

SPIEGEL: The character of news has changed, hasn't it?

King: That's the downside.

SPIEGEL: Even a star like you is powerless to stop it?

King: Sometimes it's easier for management to take the easy way. If you want to do a show on the Middle East you will not get good numbers. Even though you can certainly say that the Middle East is certainly more important than Anna Nicole Smith. Who would deny that?

SPIEGEL: How do you deal with the competition?

King: An absurd competition has broken out between the talk shows. They have Anna Nicole's brother? Then we need her doctor. Or sister. But it isn't important. I mean, it has no effect on your life. Would we have done that years ago? In my radio days and in early television maybe one show would have been done about Anna Nicole. But Anna Nicole Smith wouldn't have been a figure 40 years ago because she didn't do anything. So it's a story because it's a story. Corporations today are run by accountants. In those days they were run by broadcasters, and they understood better what a broadcaster did. Now it comes from accounting and accounting is all about the bottom line.

source: http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,druck-476034,00.html

*) as for blame and the current events, let's not forget evil politicians, gun manufacturers, the police, government (mental) health care institutions and family doctors. Looks like a real clusterfcuk. As others have mentioned, the blame game and criticism isn't always helpful.