The lurid website Gawker.com recently posted a story about the suicide of a Fox News employee that was entirely empty of any real newsworthiness, but did serve as a platform to throw a dig at Fox News. In fact, it seems the only reason that Gawker posted the story at all is to attack Fox News. Exploiting this poor woman’s death and mental anguish just to get a dig at Fox News is over-the-top even for Gawker, but it is the culture our friends on the left have fostered in America today.
Featuring a giant Fox News logo, the Gawker piece blares in a bold headline that “Former Fox News Producer Committed Suicide, Investigators Say.” From all the hoopla Gawker gave this story one would think that Fox News was central in the story. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Certainly the suicide of a Fox News employee could be newsworthy. If it had involved a high profile, on-air personality or high executive of Fox, perhaps the news of his suicide might be somewhat newsworthy. But the woman whose death Gawker and its commenters are chortling over is nothing of the kind.
As it happens, though, the employee in question was a low level producer despondent over the death of her mother. She was not a household name, an on-air personality, or a high muckety-muck in the corporation. Her story is tragic, but has precisely nothing to do with Fox News.
Further, the deceased Julianna Rolle, 39, was an employee of Fox News five years ago, not today. So, not only did Gawker exploit her death for a dig at Fox News, the claim that she is producer at Fox News isn’t even relevant. Her work at Fox News was just another entry on her resume.
The original story in the woman’s local newspaper treated the story with the proper respect and perspective. Its inclusion on Gawker was simply an attempt to tar Fox News as a place that causes employees to kill themselves.
In fact, on that last note, one of the Gawker distempered commenters named “lorrigirl” certainly was tuned in to what Gawker was peddling:
How can you not be depressed working for Fox News? All they do is push the agenda of lies that the world is coming to an end and it will never get better as long as Democrats hold the power?
I personally could not live with the guilt of manufacturing misery for a paycheck.
Yes, “lorrigirl” got what Gawker was trying to sell, for sure. It’s all about the eeeevil Fox News and if Gawker has to exploit the death of this troubled woman, then so be it. Disgusting.
Meanwhile, the author of the post, Hamilton Nolan — obviously stung by the heaps of obloquy being poured on him — defends himself in a comment:
Since some people are trying to make this into something it’s not: This is a media story. A former Fox News producer committed suicide. Had I had a good and available photo of Rolle, I would have run that instead of the Fox News logo. You will notice the vitriol here is coming from some crazy commenters; it is not contained in the text of this post. This is “reporting a media story,” not “exploiting.” ‘Body of Former FNC Producer Found at Bottom of Cliff’ is also how this was reported on TV Newser, where I first saw it. They are not known for their fierce anti-Fox rhetoric. If a former veteran ABC producer commits suicide tomorrow, that would be a story, as well. Everyone calm down. Media staffer suicides are sad news, but news.
Right. Especially when they have something to do with Fox News.
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here's Hamilton Nolan, Dbag extraordanaire http://www.cloudstarchaser.com/hamiltonnolan/ time to start drawing all the roaches out into the light.
Okay Gawker, Martin Fishbein, the man that was with Jessica Savitch the night she died was a New York Post employee, a paper owned by Rupert Murdoch. Do you think because he was a FOX employee at the time of his death, he may have turned the wheel so the car would fall into the drainage ditch because hey FOX is just that evil…
I really hate stupid people. "If a former veteran ABC producer commits suicide tomorrow, that would be a story, as well." My @$$. My condolences to Ms. Rolle's friends and family. The folks at Gawker are obviously a bunch of world-class A holes.
This is typical of all the no class, no empathy, no common decency, or respect for privacy, left wing bottom feeders, that rub salt in the wounds of a grieving family.
Can any of you here imagine how far Julianna Rolle's life must have spiraled downward in order for her to kill herself in this way? Pills or a bullet seems very cowardly compared to this.
But the focus must be on these Internet ghouls that are doing the devils work for obvious political reasons.
May the Gawker website crash on the rocks of the sick idiology they support.
I'm falling out with you people for the first time on this one…so be it…
If this chick would have died because she wrecked her Harley on the Turnpike, had a stroke, or suffered a freak toaster pastry accident, it wouldn't have been news, local or otherwise. There would have been no story upon which to comment.
Seems like somebody sorta brought some of this on herself, or, more precisely, her survivors.
Mental illness sucks. Death is tragic. G-d kills moms and dogs because He has to, but suicide is never the answer to anything, ever, unless (maybe) you find yourself in a Rommel-esque conundrum. It is a selfish act and, in this case, is bearing consequences to that effect.
This outrage being expressed here sort of reminds me of the outrage from the left when Rachel "St. Pancake" Corrie threw herself under a bulldozer and was, quite understandably, posthumously ridiculed by elements of the right.
This Julianna Rolle person made some bad decisions. She is neither saint by virtue of her previous affiliation with Fox News nor demon for the same, but the actions that bring us here, now, were hers and hers, alone.
I guess what I'm trying to say is don't sign me up for a t-shirt.
After seeing his website it's very clear that your comment is an insult to Dbags everywhere.
true he is dbag squared
"Tasteless" is too mild a term for this. "Sick" comes to mind. So does "disgusting". Also various rude words and phrases that would have our hosts delete my comment for decency's sake. Even worse but not surprising, people sided with this guy and further exploited this poor woman's death.
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Don't know about working for Fox but they certainly do help keep me depressed. Every time they at Fox blow the whistle on the likes of MSM and anyone virtually everyone in the admin and congress, yes sir first I get depressed. Then I get freaking mad as hell.
Fox you are by far without a doubt the most depressing network on the tube. Keep up the depressing but honest work.
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The above story cements that 'journalists' are too stupid for Twitter. Some are even too stupid for Gawker. That's pretty damned stupid.
Huh? A freak fatal toaster pastry accident would have been international news…followed by wall-to-wall coverage of the toaster pastry recall, a week of Congressional hearings, and ultimately a lavish televised ceremony when Obama signs the law banning the manufacture, sale, and posession of toaster pastries in this country, surrounded by little rented fat kids who will finally be kept safe from another joy of childhood.
I stand corrected.
As I write this, I am listening to this amazing woman on video on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnHUF8hzJcs After hearing her I have an even stronger faith that we will prevail over the parasites.
http://www.teapartyexpress.tv/
If she never worked for Fox News, or if she was a former, low profile employee of The New York Times, it never would've been a story. Suicides aren't major news. The only this became anything more than a small, local news event was her affiliation with Fox, and even then it was a stretch.
So, I guess those who have worked or work for Fox News cannot have physical or mental health issues or family problems like everyone else? News flash! People are people no matter WHO they work for. Fox News has never claimed its employees are immune from the problems everyone else has. Just how stupid are those at Gawker? Never mind – I already know. Stupid and blinded by hate and prejudice.
I don't know about that. Substitute "former producer, NPR All Things Considered…" for Fox News, and observe the subsequent right wing jackassity in the comment section.
Maybe not you. Definitely not me. But it would happen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP-IM7maxbI&fe...
Jeeze Louise, can't you save the Freudian analysis for another time? You just heaped on more crap to the poor family. They are grieving and you are busy recommending that they stop to evaluate the "selfish" nature of her sad decision. So, the next thing you want to add is JUST GET OVER IT?
I have observed, over 45 years of living on this rock, that people who dredge this sort of muck, tend to end up in it in the end. I have learned to be patient and appreciative when the Universe works faster than I had expected.
I smell a class action law suit for some ambulance chasing…….. let me correct myself….. hearse chasing lawyer. Maybe a buddy of Eric Holder has some free time.
Thanks, she gave me goosebumps and REAL hope!
Gawker tried to screw Apple and now they are trying to screw FOX. It appears that they will do anything for attention from those on the Journolist .
"Gawker" is acting as Satan's tool of deception, what else would one expect? Lies and fabrications are limitless when demeaning an entire group by packaging them as one!!! Anyone professing to be Civil in life is to be persecuted for mistakes made, while those practicing incivility are to be forgiven!!!! More proof there IS A STANDARD, RIGHT AND WRONG, everyone piles on when a weakness of righteousness is exposed, it's like they conquered something or proven you are as big a criminal as they are when caught out of characture!!! There is no true neutrality, everyone leans right (Everyone's rights are equal, including your own) or left (Your rights come first, others are subjects of yours, when exercising those superior rights), Right or Wrong.. Same scenario, left is wrong, it/they cannot be God as they inspire to be, when they are self gifted with limitless rights and you are allowed few!!!! Governors of earth are not God(S), get over your infatuations, it is how they gain power, their foolish followers relinquish their (God given (Human (Individual)))"Rights" (And wealth) to their lords/Rulers/En-slavers/Governors/Singers/Actors/Etc., the fools are the fan club who pays…..DEARLY, sometimes!!!
Gawker is a website for stupid fags by stupid fags.
Gawker is libtard crap for Gay Libtards!
" How can you not be depressed working for Fox News?…."I personally could not live with the guilt of manufacturing misery for a paycheck."
How does FoxNews 'manufacture misery'? Obama and Democratics offer nothing but misery and doom&gloom, as they try to march us in line. FoxNews is the only nation-wide TV media outlet that even acknowledges the phenomenon. FoxNews is the Least likely to latch onto 'the sky is falling' pretext to every Democrat position. FoxNews' right-perspective is actually an under-representation of the news-consuming public given that many more self-identify with conservatism than Obamagenda. CNN, MESSNBC, CBS, and NBC all swallow whole whatever Obamagenda is pushing- jobs are not coming back, Obama will not allow 'you to go on as before, and we will generally be forced to follow Obamagenda orders since he, one flawed human mortal, 'just knows' how to manage and organize every basic facet of your life and this country- 'in fairness to all' (to be determined on an ongoing basis depending on who falls in line thereby pleasing Barack). Meaningful/threatening opposition to Obamagenda will bring more "whites abandoning Obama"- propaganda pieces, articles that virtually ignore the real underlying legitimate reasons for opposing this radical socialist/communist. Obama is one of the most dishonest Presidents we've had since in my first-hand memory of presidents, and PopMedia backfills his deceptions. Even Bill Clinton had his moments of truth with a PopMedia that was forced at times to acknowledge his deficiencies and lies. Obama is the great white-Leftists' hope to transforming America into a third world Obamaland and will not be abandoned to the truth by MM.
-If W Bush had a loose connection or two decades ago to the John Birch Society wouldn't we still be reading about it today? Yet Obama- the man with no past except what he wrote down as career preparation in his self-congratulatory PopBios, continues to get the pass. PopMedia Refuses to connect his dots, even as Obama's views of US and the world, including our part in it, reveal themselves through his increasingly unpopular policies and demands.
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How dare they mock her for the death. When Kennedy died, all right-wingers said good things about him and kept it civil.
I am sorry, I can't keep this straight face any longer
The only reason for tying this poor woman's suicide to Fox News is to make it appear that Fox was part of her motivation for killing herself. Why else mention it, especially if they mentioned no other news organization she worked for? Do they usually mention past places of employment for suicide cases? This is truly lowbrow stuff.
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