Live blogging Aubrey's memorial service

[David]

Sooo, we don't actually know if they asked the family or not, the general consensus is to just assume they didn't and continue to demonize them?

[barrettd]

Sooo, we don't actually know if they asked the family or not, the general consensus is to just assume they didn't and continue to demonize them?

I don't think I've demonized anyone. Regardless of whether or not anyone asked the family, the idea itself is in poor taste. Certainly, the feelings of the family of the deceased are to be considered, but what of the feelings of the rest of the mourners in attendance? And where does one draw the line? Would it be OK for her to take in an iPad and do the same thing? A laptop?

It was a bad call by the editor or whoever decided she should do the piece. Asking the family shouldn't have even entered into the equation because it shouldn't have been considered worth doing to begin with.

[David]

Here's the thing. If the family approved, then who the hell are any of us to find it in poor taste? Not me, and not you either.

And given just who the family is, and the fact that the article summarizing the tweets has been live on the Newsok site for a couple days now, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that they either approved it or don't care. They would certainly have the influence to get it taken down if they wanted.

[stile99]

Here's the thing. If the family approved, then who the hell are any of us to find it in poor taste? Not me, and not you either.

Odd. I swear when I went to sleep last night it was in America, where I was free to hold whatever opinion I liked, and not only hold that opinion, but express and discuss it. I *thought* I woke up in the same bed, in the same house...maybe the whole shebang was moved while I slept? What country am I in now that someone else holds the right to decide my tastes for me? Can I move back to America? Cause I don't like it...or am I now not allowed to not like it? Do I have to move myself, or will my bed and house come with, via whatever mystical means were used to remove them in the first place?

[David]

You are free to hold whichever opinions you like, just as I am free to think those opinions are ridiculous and silly. Oh no, an uninvolved anonymous person on the internet is offended, whatever shall we do.

Oh yeah, nothing, because it is irrelevant.

[barrettd]

Here's the thing. If the family approved, then who the hell are any of us to find it in poor taste? Not me, and not you either.

And given just who the family is, and the fact that the article summarizing the tweets has been live on the Newsok site for a couple days now, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that they either approved it or don't care. They would certainly have the influence to get it taken down if they wanted.

I've only spoken for myself here, not for the family, not for you, etc. Of course, you and I can find different things tasteful or not. If the family paid, themselves, for her to blog the funeral, I wouldn't feel any less disgusted by it. My feelings of what is or what is not tasteful are exactly that, my feelings. Who's demonizing who in this thread?

[David]

Live updates from memorial

This may be one of the most tasteless things I've seen. A reporter live blogging (with pics) from a seat in Aubrey's memorial service. Just when I didn't think NewsOK could get any worse.

This may be one of the most tasteless things I've seen. Just when I didn't think NewsOK could get any worse. Pretty sure it was you. Or did you mean that in some sort of neutral, non-judgmental fashion? I thought you made yourself pretty clear.

[barrettd]

This may be one of the most tasteless things I've seen. Just when I didn't think NewsOK could get any worse. Pretty sure it was you. Or did you mean that in some sort of neutral, non-judgmental fashion? I thought you made yourself pretty clear.

Still not sure who I have demonized, but I think, at this point, you're just baiting for entertainment's sake. Saying it's tasteless is not demonizing. Neither is saying NewsOK made a terrible call letting it happen.

[Pete]

Everyone has made their points here.

Thread closed; let's move on.