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It's Scary Out There in Reporting Land
'Beats are fundamental to journalism, but our foundation is crumbling.'
By David Cay Johnston
To understand how badly we're doing the most basic work of journalism in covering the law enforcement beat, try sitting in a barbershop. When I was getting my last haircut, the noon news on the television—positioned to be impossible to avoid watching—began with a grisly murder. The well-educated man in the chair next to me started ranting about how crime is out of control.
But it isn't. I told Frank, a regular, that crime isn't running wild and his
Upon further checking, I learned that the chance of getting burglarized today is actually 42.5 percent of what it was in 1980.
chance of being burglarized today is less than one quarter what it was in 1980. The shop turned so quiet you could have heard a hair fall to the floor had the scissors not stopped. The barbers and clients listened intently as I next told them about how the number of murders in America peaked back in the early 1990's at a bit south of 25,000 and fell to fewer than 16,000 in 2009. When we take population growth into account, this means your chance of being murdered has almost been cut in half.
"So why is there so much crime on the news every day?" Diane, who was cutting Frank's hair, asked.
"Because it's cheap," I replied. "And with crime news you only have to get the cops' side of the story. There is no ethical duty to ask the arrested for their side of the story."
Cheap news is a major reason that every day we are failing in our core mission of providing people with the knowledge they need for our democracy to function. Barry Glassner, in an important book every journalist should read, tells us how cheap news badly done spreads false beliefs and racial distrust. It's been a decade since he came out with "
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
." By my sights, the problems Glassner described have gotten worse, much worse.
Does Anybody Care?
Beats are fundamental to journalism, but our foundation is crumbling. Whole huge agencies of the federal government and, for many news organizations, the entirety of state government go uncovered. There are school boards and city councils and planning commissions that have not seen a reporter in years. The outrageous salaries that were paid to Bell, California city officials—close to $800,000 to the city manager, for example—would not have happened if just one competent reporter had been covering that city hall in
"Uncovering an Uncovered Story in Bell, California"
- Jonathan Seitz
Southern California. But no one was, and it took an accidental set of circumstances for two reporters from the Los Angeles Times to reveal this scandal.
Four decades ago when I covered local government meetings in Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury, I always asked for copies of the agency budget. In those days, before spreadsheets or the first pocket calculator had been invented, I did long division in the margins to figure out trends and how the taxpayers' money was being spent. It not only relieved the tedium of the meetings I sat through, but it produced story after story after story that engaged readers and at times infuriated officials while protecting the public purse.
Increasingly what I see are news reports evidencing a basic lack of knowledge about government. And this isn't happening just with beat reporters but with the assignment and copy editors who are supposed to review stories before they get into print or on the air.
In the first 10 months of this year, a Nexis database search shows, newspapers and wire services reported more than 1,700 times that juries, grand or petite, handed down indictments and verdicts.
Sometimes I pick up the phone and call reporters whose stories contain this incredibly dumb mistake and politely try to educate them. Perhaps it's obnoxious, but somebody needs to do it. Some reporters ask me what difference it makes. A few have insisted that down is correct. Really, I ask. Even if people have never been in the courtroom, they would know from movies and television that the judge sits in the highest position and therefore juries hand up while judges hand down. When I've asked reporters and some editors how many votes are needed for a jury to convict, I've sometimes gotten back cautious, slow or wrong answers. And it's not a trick question. If any reporter doesn't instantly know this answer, then alarms should sound and training should promptly commence.
Far too much of journalism consists of quoting what police, prosecutors, politicians and publicists say—and this is especially the case with beat reporters. It's news on the cheap and most of it isn't worth the time it takes to read, hear or watch. Don't take my word for it. Instead look at declining circulation figures. People know value and they know when what they're getting is worth their time or worth the steadily rising cost of a subscription.
Less for More
I also am board chairman and part owner of a very small business—we manage a small hotel—that follows a different customer policy than newspapers do. Every year the three papers I subscribe to cut quality and raise prices. When we charge our guests more, we give them something more—nicer shampoo, fluffier towels—and we tell them about the new benefit. Why should we think people would pay more for less and do so repeatedly?
One day a decade or so ago when Amtrak said my Metroliner would be delayed at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, I ran upstairs and bought The Philadelphia Inquirer, where I worked for seven years. Buried inside I found a half column about the new budget for Montgomery County, the wealthiest and most important county for the newspaper's financial success. The story was mostly about the three commissioners yelling at each other. The total budget was mentioned, almost in passing, with no hint of whether it meant property taxes would go up or down, more money would be spent on roads or less, or any of the other basics that readers want to know.
For this I paid money? I could only imagine the reaction of the residents of Montgomery County.
This problem is not with the breakdown in the centuries-old economic model, a simple model that many journalists do not really understand. Connecting buyers and sellers who are in search of one another pays the bills. What draws them is a desire to find out that which is important but that they did not know. We call this information the
Far too much of what we produce today is already widely known. We fill so many pages with rehashed or known information that on many days these publications could properly be called
papers. It's not like there isn't important and revealing news all around us. There is. It's just that we seem swept up in a herd mentality with too narrow a focus and too much eagerness to rely on what sources tell us rather than asking these same people to address important facts that lie in plain sight in the public record.
Much of what passes for reporting about government these days is not only information that is useless, it is laughable nonsense, and I have the coffee stains on my robe to prove it. Every morning I read "
Beat the Press
" on the Center for Economic and Policy Research website, which is liberal economist Dean Baker's critique of the economic theory, policy and "facts" he finds on the front pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other media outlets. Baker routinely picks apart articles that are as far from reality as a weather story that says the sun rose in the West.
Sometimes I send these criticisms on to the ombudsman or top editors of the offending publications. I have even put together packages showing from the newspaper's own clips that what was printed is utterly false. But I rarely see any corrections made nor any insistence that writers actually know what they are writing about when it comes to government policy, economic policy, taxes or treaties.
During the past 15 years as I focused my reporting on how the American economy works and the role of government in shaping how the benefits and burdens of the economy are distributed, I've grown increasingly dismayed at the superficial and often dead wrong assumptions permeating the news. Every day in highly respected newspapers I read well-crafted stories with information that in years past I would have embraced but now know is nonsense, displaying a lack of understanding of economic theory and the regulation of business. The stories even lack readily available official data on the economy and knowledge of the language and principles in the law, including the Constitution.
What these stories have in common is a reliance on what sources say rather than what the official record shows. If covering a beat means finding sources and sniffing out news, then a firm foundation of knowledge about the topic is essential, though not sufficient. Combine this with a curiosity to dig deeply into the myriad of documents that are in the public record—and then ask sources about what the documents show.
David Cay Johnston
, while working at The New York Times, won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting for his coverage of loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code. He is a columnist for
Tax Analysts
and teaches the law of the ancient world at Syracuse University's law and graduate business schools. "The Fine Print," the third book in his series about the American economy, is scheduled to be published in 2011 by Penguin.
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It's Scary Out There in Reporting Land
Marta says:
March 9, 2011 at 6:50pm
Nice column and I agree with most of it. I would add that part of the problem is tracking readers' interest by tracking the clicks on the website. Crime news online gets more clicks than stories about government budgets (unless there's fraud going on at city hall or the state house). Tracking clicks puts increased pressure on editors and reporters to post more stories that drives clicks. That's because the advertisers and ad reps want to know what type of stories get the most page views and they book ad slots on those pages (like the page for local news or the 911 blog.) Regarding jury's handing up or down, I covered cops and courts for years. I never bothered to write that a jury handed up the verdict. That's four words. I prefer to use one strong verb, such as convicted or acquitted. Then I could use the details of the crime to punch up the lede but not be too wordy. Of course, it's a little more complicated when you've got a hung jury. But I hear what you're saying, especially when reporter's can't explain the statistics that goes into DNA comparisons or a reporter or copy editor thinks an empty house was robbed. For Taylor, who is interested in beat reporting, I suggest you join Investigative Reporters and Editors. It's the best $60 you'll spend on your career. Here's a link to their tipsheet for covering City Hall as a beat reporter: http://www.ire.org/resourcecenter/viewtipsheets.php?number=2472 People who want to work the cops beat should read Edna Buchanan's The Corpse Had A Familiar Face. Oh yeah, be prepared to starve, drive an old car, and not own a house.
Jane Braaten says:
January 5, 2011 at 9:39am
Great article, and interesting comments. The situation sounds similar to the era of pre-commercial media around the turn of the 19th/20th c., a period of enormous demographic change with accompanying fragmentation of class, niche and language. Few journalists - among them many of the best - were paid at all; their income consisted of the pennies of sympathizers. Handing over journalism to people of mediocre caliber who simply want to make millions, and if they can, billions, is a recipe for disaster that can only go on for so long. Perhaps we're seeing the kind of revolution against manipulation of opinion that has occurred before. The best fly-by-night journalists are the vanguard; a lot depends on their willingness to continue the struggle. It's worth noting again, however, that readers play a role. Americans have tolerated, even cultivated, low standards of literacy and rhetorical talent. The kind of analysis you're talking about is so much mumbo-jumbo to the majority of us. We respond more automatically to stimulation and conflict (polarization), and so commercial journalism seeks out emotional and sentimental triggers and kafuffles. To put things in perspective, it's doubtful that public intellectuals and high-caliber journalism have ever captured a mass audience. It's not like our literacy problem is new. It may be that what's different now is that we are all treated to a spectacle of who our fellow Americans really are. This could be a mind-opening opportunity, although it can feel dreadful to those who care about depth and accuracy.
Logan says:
January 4, 2011 at 5:22pm
David, I am going to join those who say you are wrong about 'handing down' and 'handing up' in a court room. Physical location has nothing to do with. The grand jury hands 'down' its decision as an expression of the ultimate sovereignty of the people. The people are superior, even to the judge, and it is through the grand jury the people express its will. In a monarchy, a jury hands 'up' its decision to the monarch, where the ultimate sovereignty rests. I trust you remember we are a republic, not a monarchy.
Chicago Dyke says:
December 20, 2010 at 6:49am
Edward identifies the problem, but failed to note the reason why it is happening in the manner he describes. which is to say what do newspaper owners of today value? and the answer is: very short term immediate profit, and often personal or shareholder profit, above and often without regard to the health of the news organization itself. while i take issue with his tone about bloggers, he's not wrong that cost cutting at news departments is very much the cause of the decline of investigative journalism. in my opinion, this shift in priority in the minds of newspaper owners is also on purpose; less real journalism means fewer questions about say, the practices on Wall St which created the banking crisis, and the political response (buying up worthless bank assets with taxpayer money and allowing banks to use that money for their own profit in safe investing climates). i've read quite a few reports now about newspaper and magazine ownership who literally have never read the publication they've just bought, and who only see it as something to manipulate briefly before 'cashing out.' i've also read plenty about ideologically motivated people coming to control a publication to suit their own ideological ends. and of collusion between the ownership class; of very wealthy shareholders, high ranking government officials, and the specific production of a certain type of news that keeps americans in the dark about what they (don't) read. the previous administration was quite well know (in certain circles) for just this, meeting with publication and media executives privately for the purpose of massaging the message; i work in education, and i think it's worth noting that for a generation and more, the teaching of critical analysis and awareness of the functions of a free press have been all but absent in most public schools. it's very hard to find the sort of current events; and media analysis social science classes that some of enjoyed when i was in high school, today. there has also been a de-emphasis on reading and an overemphasis on consuming video product as a form of learning,; the introduction of Channel One in classrooms was only a sad beginning. one can also speak of the rise of celebrity reporters and the decline of televised investigative journalism in video news, but that's another long post in and of itself. i am compelled to note not all news-reporting bloggers are lazy; or unskilled. not only have i done some original reporting myself, but i read bloggers who do every day. they are not hard to find, for all most of them are not employed by an established media entity. i will agree that many blogging reporters who do work for a major media outlet are in fact, quite lazy and at times seem unaware of even the fact that google exists.
Amy says:
December 17, 2010 at 3:55am
Lazy reporters and know-nothing editors are a huge problem. I remember being appalled about 10 years ago, when a reporter I inherited thought newsgathering meant looking for possible stories by checking Yahoo Finance news feeds. When I challenged her to beef up her skills - for example, picking up the phone to call experts to determine whether a news release she wanted to write up was viable, and getting more facts to beef up the story - she responded by shrieking that my job was to make her feel good about her work. I'm sure I'm not the only person this has happened to.
Edward Miller says:
December 17, 2010 at 3:12am
Terrific piece, but sadly cheap journalism is exactly what happens when you have newspaper ownership that see no value in hiring and training staff, when the word "inessential" is used to justify laying off entire copy desks and veteran reporters in favor of bloggers and entry-level reporters who don't know an FOI request from a coffee cup, who in turn file stories with few or even no editors to look at them let alone call them out for lazy reporting or inaccuracies. And they are expected to post a story to the web, live-tweet from the place they are covering and then file for deadline for the printed version all while racing to cover something else, and finally the concept that you talk about called the "Beat" doesn't exist anymore at a lot of newsmedia organizations. Reporters are all general news gatherers who aren't assigned to specific beats or bloggers who are only interested in giving their opinion. And having worked as an editor before being told recently that my position as an editor was "inessential" to the newspaper, I can tell you that every year I asked for training time and and money to help staffers get better and every year without exception the first thing to be cut from the budget was "training" and this was at almost every newspaper I worked at in the last 15 years.. It's no wonder that newspaper circulation has gone down. It's a shame to see its decline and the associated symptoms of an uninformed populace.
Jon Greenbaum says:
December 16, 2010 at 2:17pm
I've given up consuming the corporate media (except to keep up on the local news my coworkers will be discussing - but that's really at the level of gossip, isn't it). I get more out of FAIR's Counterspin and Dean Baker's Beat the Press than the actual coverage itself. Keep it coming David.
ChrisInDenver says:
December 16, 2010 at 1:54am
Judith, may I suggest you read journalist Matt Taibbi's terrific article about the ongoing foreclosure mess in America, "Invasion of the Home Snatchers," which appeared in the November issue of Rolling Stone. It's still available online; click the following link to read it. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/matt-taibbi-courts-helping-banks-screw-over-homeowners-20101110 It's my hope that the article will infuriate you -- and anyone else who reads it -- as much as it pissed me off. Taibbi's an excellent journalist, and if you can stomach his penchant for inserting curse words in his articles (I don't mind it), then I believe you'll dig this article.
four legs good says:
December 15, 2010 at 5:53pm
Hear, hear. Thank you for this column.
Taylor Wray says:
December 15, 2010 at 3:02pm
I'm very interested in becoming exactly the type of reporter you're talking about - someone who digs into primary documents, critically questions sources and helps maintain the fourth estate's check on corruption in general. My question is, how do I get a job doing that? Are there simply no more beat reporters now that cheap news is the dominant model? Would I have to be a part-time reporter with another job who simply publishes my articles on the blogosphere somewhere? What do you suggest for young, educated, patriotic Americans like myself who want to turn improve American journalism but don't know where to start?
Morgan Getham says:
December 15, 2010 at 2:06pm
When my parents (both Journalism school grads) moved to a suburban community in the 1940's, my mother (in spite of caring for three small children) took a job writing for the community weekly paper. She covered the city council hearings, over their STRONG objections. After a couple of meetings, she knew why. A couple of weeks later, the whole TOWN knew why. The next election, there was a new city council. Growing up in Texas in the 1950's my dad taught me basic economics and a LOT about politics, especially Washington (where Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson ran Congress). Made me memorize the names of all the cabinet officers and what each department did. He had to tread carefully when it came to local small-town politics though (one of my classmates, for example, was the daughter of the local sheriff). But he KNEW these things thoroughly. Along with the basic principles of nuclear physics, by the way. I learned a lot. Then went into mathematics professionally instead of following him into journalism.
John Dickey says:
December 15, 2010 at 11:57am
Interesting thoughts in the piece. Coincidentally, I hold a bachelor's degree in economics, along with more than 10 years experience as a news reporter, but have been unable to get a job as a business reporter. I guess economics isn't all that important to newspapers.
jim jaffe says:
December 15, 2010 at 11:03am
I'm a big fan of david's and think most of what he says here and elsewhere it not only right, but often wise. that said, I think there's a lot of crime coverage because people are concerned about what they perceive as threats in their neighborhood. If someone is murdered in my zip code, I want to know about it and am worried, irrespective of broader data that shows things are generally getting safer. his analysis of lazy coverage is dead on, but that doesn't begin to explain the "if it bleeds, it leads" mentality pioneered by Al Primo and others.
Rich Gardner says:
December 15, 2010 at 9:25am
Yeah, I've been reading Beat the Press for many years. I even wrote to one of the subjects of a story many years back where I essentially asked "Gee, aren't you embarrassed to be continually shown up by Baker in this manner?" I received an answer that was so obviously a stock answer that the reporter clearly just had a copy of it on his computer, put my name on it as the addressee and sent it out to me. I've never bothered to write to any of the subjects since.
MKS says:
December 15, 2010 at 8:45am
Very thoughtful article. The American public has almost always provided a market for shoddy, inaccurate and agitating news. The only solution that I can see is to allow as much freedom of the press as possible, and advocate that people learn to think critically so they can determine which sources provide ethical and thorough journalism. If enough people did that, shoddy sources would lose market share. Perhaps making libel suit decisions very public would help, too.
Howard Owens says:
December 14, 2010 at 9:11pm
When I was a reporter at the Daily Californian in eastern San Diego County I went to more than one meeting of a public body that hadn't seen a reporter in years. My primary beat at first was the City of Santee. The City Manager there hated me. While three newspapers assigned reporters to the beat, none had ever once filed a FOIL request. My first request -- quite by coincidence -- turned up an automobile accident he had been involved in and was at fault, driving a city vehicle. Lazy reporters have long been a problem in journalism. Recent cuts make the problem worse, but don't change the basic, endemic problem in the industry. David, please drive on out to Batavia some afternoon and I'll buy you lunch at one of the great locally owned restaurants we have here and we can talk about cheap journalism and how I've turned the concept into a business model. I think I owe you a lunch anyway.
Paid Heckler says:
December 14, 2010 at 7:45pm
Excellent piece David. I don't know how I would respond if I was in that barber chair. Probably rant about Mcluhan, Xeno, and Bill Hicks.
Judith Nies says:
December 14, 2010 at 4:06pm
Terrific piece. And all too true. For example, I have yet to read an accurate article about how the Home Loan Modification program provoked many unnecessary foreclosures.
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4th of July, three day weekend 2012. All we needed was a date. A day of mutual cooperation and concern. A small sacrifice for a big cause. Do not turn on ANY liberal media outlets, or their programming counterparts, any network broadcasting, cable, cable news, or any outlet you may consider to be liberal at least to the biased level. This is growing across America, to see if we can make a dent large enough they can't hide. And if we can, the idea is set. It hits their advertisers and income. America wants some balanced news and social coverage.
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Submitted by texasborngranny on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 8:03pm.
We seldom watch TV, but especially during the summer. Instead, we swim, cook-out, play games like horseshoes, croquette, scrabble, 42 (Texans will know), Skip-Bo, Catch Phrase, Apples to Apples, etc., etc., etc.
Send a message to the lib media, with the bonus of having fun and learning more about your family/friends/neighbors when you actually interact with them.
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Submitted by texasborngranny on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 10:03pm.
double post/senior moment.
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In other word: 4th of July = TV Independence Day
Submitted by needle on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 9:54pm.
In other word: 4th of July = TV Independence Day
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
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MMMM.... Lack of any talented
Submitted by John21 on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 12:18pm.
MMMM.... Lack of any talented actors? Lack of a real story line? Lack of honesty?
Lack of integrety? or Lack of an audience?
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Woo woo woo
Submitted by ljacone on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 12:35pm.
Saw this over the weekend and was very pleased. Good riddance to this awful, offensive, piece of trash TV.
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Alternate Smash Hit!
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 12:40pm.
UFB. Ugly Feminist Bitches. Now this show would be a blockbuster. Wait, what? They already have a show like that? It's called MSNBC? Oh, right.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read ŌĆ£Leftism As PsychopathyŌĆØ by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
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Actually, ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 3:19pm.
... with the exception of one smoking hot blonde, I was thinking The View!
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Lack of audience is all that it takes.
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 12:45pm.
Money talks in Hollywood. The fact that the ratings were extremely bad would be enough for sponsors to pull their ads from the show and the network to jettison the production.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. The network might have to dispose of this as hazardous waste in that mine in Nevada.
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It would be nice
Submitted by russedav on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 2:37pm.
but sadly this isn't entirely true if you study the stats, for all too often their evil antiChristian immoral agenda is more important to these fanatics than $, as seen in the fact that though G movies ALWAYS make more $ these lawless fascist perverts always want to push the envelope TOWARD the R spectrum far enough to have the evil titillation of their agenda but not actually AT it lest they lose too much $. As Dostoyevsky said, without God anything (evil) is possible.
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So the free market
Submitted by misterbee241 on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 1:12pm.
has spoken. So much for religious and conservative censorship.
If you're not getting flak, you're not over the target.
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They would have cancelled it
Submitted by Free Stinker on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 1:12pm.
They would have cancelled it sooner, but they had to keep it going For The Cause.
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Never saw it. Won't miss
Submitted by texastommy on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 1:13pm.
Never saw it. Won't miss it.
But, I would watch one about the LBOM. It would make fun of the liberal bitches of the occupy movement.
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What did they expect....?
Submitted by NeoKong on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 1:15pm.
The very premise of the show was rooted in hostility.
It was mean and offensive.
ABC was basically telling millions of people how much they despise them.
I hope they wasted a ton of money on it.
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Na-na-na-naaaa.... Na-na-na-naaaa.... Hey... Hey... Hey....
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 1:38pm.
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That's to bad. I watched the
Submitted by stormy67 on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 2:21pm.
That's to bad. I watched the show to see what it was about. It was hysterical. Irreverent? Yes. But the show was really good. There was only one preachy episode I didn't care for. My absolute favorite episode was the musical.
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The show was not funny. It
Submitted by felizagain on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 2:35pm.
The show was not funny. It was a Texas version of Desperate Housewives, and I think that 'genre' has come and gone a bit right now. There are far too many 'Real Housewives' shows w/ the same thing. Just watch the Dallas or Texas version of that vehicle, right?
Honestly, if it was funny, w/some heart, (some heartfelt truth, mixed in w/humor), it might have made it.
But, it wasn't. Saw parts of 2 episodes. No bother.
Pretty bad if I can get the same thing from The Simpsons, where the left usually aims at the right....but, they do it w/humor, and once in a while, a tidbit comes thru for the right....w/humor. Like South Park.
This was just not a funny tv show.
But, yes, we all know there would never, ever be a show about a send up of an Islamic community of women, a liberal enclave of East Coast college women, or of serious journalist women........ If they can poke fun at the right, it's on tv. If it pokes fun at the left, it doesn't make it pass the presentation stage in the meeting.
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I never saw it.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 3:22pm.
I guess that I was too busy clinging to my guns and Bible.
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I know it's petty, but still...
Submitted by Slyrr on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 4:24pm.
In yo' FACE, Annie Potts!
Maybe next time you'll think twice before barfing out your hollywood-b@$tardized fantasies about what you think of Christianity, and trying to pass it off as 'entertainment'. Hopefully Bill Mahar, the View, MSNBC and all the other liberal dreck will soon follow your foul show to the dung heap of media history where they belong.
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That was the worst show I had
Submitted by marpel on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 4:55pm.
That was the worst show I had ever seen. I got thru about 15 minute of it one night and it was so terrible that I couldn't change the channel fast enough.
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Color me surprised
Submitted by panzerakc on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 5:41pm.
Darn those knuckle-dragging, Bible-and-gun-clinging right-wing fascist neanderthals anyway. They just WILL NOT watch the TV programs they need to watch so they will UNDERSTAND! /s
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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Cancelled due to "intolerance"
Submitted by jpwcpa on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 5:42pm.
You know that's going to be the spin of the producers, stars, etc of this trainwreck known as GCB. Right-wingers, they will say, wouldn't tune in to the show to give it a ratings boost, and this will somehow constitute proof that right-wingers are intolerant. And when the DVD comes out in June with all 10 episodes, it will likewise be the fault of conservatives if the DVD doesn't fly off the shelves.
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Submitted by David N MO on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 6:49pm.
I like Kristin Chenoweth. She did such a good job on her two Glee episodes... Believe it or not with a DVR I watch Glee for the music and skip by most of the story... that is, what story there is...
I haven't watched GCB because I didn't like the title. Yesterday after a six month hiatus I pulled the antenna wire back through the window and watched a little broadcast TV. This morning I disconnected and dropped it back outside. I'll watch what I want over my little Roku and on my computer. Good riddance
Save me from the Good People!
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Good riddance to bad rubbish!
Submitted by Kenny Bunkport on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 7:11pm.
Good riddance to bad rubbish!
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Now why in the Hell would ABC cancel this show?
Submitted by djwolf12 on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 8:34pm.
I guess it was because Modern Family is the "it" show. I honestly am starting to believe that the Pee Stream Media is HELL BENT on making Gay Marriage the ONLY marriage to ever happen in this country.
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I knelt down next to my bed, ten years old, and once more poured out my heart to God. "God, please heal me! You know how much I hate having polio, I hate limping, I hate going to physical therapy every week, I hate the surgeries, I hate the way people stare at me because of how I walk. I hate that no one could love me with polio. I hate this, God! I know You can take it away—please let me wake up tomorrow morning all healed and restored!" Once again, I fell asleep, hopeful that God had heard me and He was able to snap His fingers or wiggle His nose or however He did miracles. And in the morning, once again, I discovered that during the night God had done absolutely nothing.
And I was FURIOUS!
"You're God! This is an easy one for You! What's wrong with You that You won't do something so easy as healing me???" Then, my little ten-year-old heart gasped, "I'm mad at God! People aren't supposed to get mad at God!" And I gathered up my explosive anger and stuffed it into the emotional basement of my heart, along with all the other times I had begged God to heal me . . . and His silent inactivity kept saying no.
Once I trusted Christ as a college student, a wise woman saw my heart full of anger, bitterness and resentment, and prayed that God would show me my heart, knowing that my anger at God was a far bigger problem than legs that don't work right. Remembering this ten-year-old memory, and the awareness there were a lot more just like it, was an answer to her prayer.
So I prayed, "God, I don't have a clue what to do. My heart is full of anger, bitterness and resentment. I am angry at You, Lord, because You won't give me what I want. I've never heard a message on 'What to do when you're so mad at God you want to spit in His face.' Please show me what to do about it."
God understands why we get angry at Him, just as a parent, possessing adult perspective, understands why a child gets angry at her. That adult understanding allows the parent to experience—and to show—grace toward a child tormented by angry confusion and a juvenile sense of entitlement to what he or she wants. Just as a child can't possibly see the big picture, much less a parent's motive and intention, that's why we get mad at God.
It's about what we can't see. And God understands.
He knows we cannot see anything but the pain and frustration of the moment. We can't see the reason(s) God is allowing us to suffer. We can't see the greater evil that a loving heavenly Father is preventing us from experiencing through the lesser evil of pain in that moment. Or season. We can't know what's going on the spirit realm, just as Balaam's donkey (Numbers 23) saw the angel of the Lord blocking their path with a sword but Balaam didn't, and he unrighteously punished the donkey.
We can't see the eternal weight of glory (2 Cor. 4:17) and beauty that God is creating in our souls through our pain and suffering, and He usually doesn't tell us. But He did tell my friend Ann. In prayer one day she had a body memory of being sexually assaulted by a man who had paid her father for the right to have access to his little girl. She asked Jesus about what felt like a heavy blanket over her during the abuse. He gave her a mental picture of Himself lying protectively on top of her, taking into Himself much of the violence of the assault. Ann saw that before the man could even touch her, he had to go through Jesus as her shield, protecting her from the worst of the assault. In answer to her heart's cry of "Why?", the Lord told her, "You are My precious gem. My Father's hand is on the chisel, creating unimaginable beauty in you. He has used every assault on you to create yet another facet of a brilliant jewel. I promise, when you see yourself in heaven, you will say, 'It was totally worth it.'"
Now, I do realize that many people would gladly choose a less highly polished gem over the pain of abuse and suffering, but this was deeply encouraging to my wise and mature friend. I have watched God use her in mighty ways to minister hope and comfort to others in pain because of her willingness to relinquish her anger at what happened to her and trust God to bring good out of evil, to work all things together for good in her life (Rom. 8:28).
When I prayed, "God please show me what to do about my anger," He answered by teaching me about His sovereignty. I learned that a good and loving God is always in control, and nothing can touch me without His express permission. His perfect love and purpose for me—and His kingdom—is a shield around me (Ps. 28:7). By the time anything reaches me, whether it is a polio virus that crippled me for life or the disappointment of living in a fallen world, it has His fingerprints all over it. He taught me that all the available facts are not all the facts. He taught me that I can only see a tiny sliver of the whole picture that He sees, and I need to trust His goodness with what I don't see.
There's more to the story, but you can read that here.
What do we do when we're so mad at God we want to spit in His face? Repent of the wrong belief that we see the whole picture, and choose to trust the God who sees everything and has a purpose in it.
This blog post originally appeared at blogs.bible.org/tapestry/sue_bohlin/mad_at_god
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Lake County Surveyor George Van Til today issued a statement saying he is resigning his position effective Thursday. According to the statement, Van Til says, "I believe that my political skills have often been a positive force for good yet, in the end, I let political campaigns intrude into the taxpayers work negatively and, ultimately, illegally. And for this, now, in declining health and regretting my errors, I need to leave."
On Monday, Van Til agreed to plead guilty to six-counts of wire fraud, one-week before a trial was set to begin and a change of plea hearing is scheduled for Thursday afternoon. The 65-year-old, who's been Lake County's surveyor for more than twenty years, is accused of using county employees in his office to do campaign work. The plea deal would also require Van Til to pay restitution, and two obstruction of justice charges would be dropped. State law prohibits public officials convicted of felonies from holding office.
Forty four years ago, as a part-time college student, I walked into a Political Science Club meeting at Indiana University Northwest and while about the same time, I signed up to help as a Clerical Union Organizer at Bethlehem Steel where I was employed. I was just a struggling young father with an autistic son.
That was the beginning of my public political involvement in our area. It quickly led to my election to the first of two terms on the Highland Town Board in 1971 at the age of 24 and on to working on the staff of the Indiana House of Representatives; the U.S. Senate; the North Township Trustee; the County Sheriff's Department, and much, much more.
I involved myself in literally dozens of voluntary civic, charitable and environmental groups and causes, unmatched by any political leader, while later I was elected by a caucus to serve on the Lake County Council followed by my election in 1992 to the first of six (6) terms as Lake County Surveyor.
These 40 plus years, by most accounts, were good, honest public service. At virtually every step along the way I left positive projects and programs for the people in my wake. From the wonderful Gazebo, in Highland's Main Square decades ago to continuous improvements in the County Surveyor's office as recent as a very productive meeting last week. Making a positive impact through public service has always been my goal, my career, and the reality of my service. Few will try to dispute this except for naysayers and political old-timers who never liked my reform agenda. BUT, now this all ends. I'm finished. It's done. I am resigning my position as Lake County Surveyor effective December 5, 2013.
I think that I have given valuable public service, but I'm certainly not indispensable. I know that I have served with integrity, but I've made significant mistakes. I believe that my political skills have often been a positive force for good yet, in the end, I let political campaigns intrude into the taxpayers work negatively and, ultimately, illegally. And for this, now, in declining health and regretting my errors, I need to leave.
I now know I stayed too long. I have been involved in more than 66 elections. I've run and won, myself, 17 times, and for those honors I will always be grateful to the good voters of our area. Also, I've played a significant role in dozens of other people's campaigns for public office, most of them good. I did it honorably and honestly until, in the end, tired, sick and uncertain, I did it wrong.
I know that the people's employees and the people's resources are for the people's business. And for decades that's the way I rolled in spite of literally countless examples from others who showed no respect for this model. Throughout four decades I've seen many abuses of political campaigning by public employees and, while it was always my goal and desire not to cross that line, towards the end I definitely did, and I think that much of this came from staying too long and taking things for granted.
I've always argued that long service in the same public office can be very beneficial to the taxpayers. I believe I proved that, with the expertise and institutional knowledge that I built up through the years that is valuable in an office like County Surveyor.
But now I've come to acknowledge that long service in the same office can be detrimental and I believe that I am an example of the problems that can be caused by this. During the last third or so of my tenure, without really realizing it, I developed a sense that it was "my office" and "my staff", and sometimes, especially in political situations, I approached it as such, on occasion asking employees to work for me, not the public. This was something that, that in retrospect gradually developed. I knew better, but as the years went by, as my enthusiasm for politics waned, as campaigns became more onerous, as my age climbed, as my health declined and as my comfort in the office increased, I gained a sense of entitlement that was wrong, and led to my wrong doing and my downfall.
So with these problems that I caused myself plus the lies of some who saw opportunities in my mistakes, along with the discoveries by the federal government which are outlined in my plea agreement, combined with my rapidly declining health, I now must leave the office I've served in and loved. It is terribly difficult for me, but the right thing to do.
My mistakes have cost me the end of my career, my stature, my good reputation, my livelihood, my savings and the respect of many, in spite of whatever public good I've produced. The Van Til family and name have been respected here in Lake County for more than 100 years and though I mostly added to that, in the end I did not uphold it as I should have. This is heartbreaking to me and my family and friends. It should have not turned out this way. I am sorry and I apologize to those who've expressed faith in me for so long and to the taxpayers of Lake County that I let down.
I ask those who believed in me for forgiveness. I apologize to the public for not staying the course. And so I say good-bye and God bless, and ask if you should run into my dear son, who was always so proud of me, if you can find it in your heart, please tell him that that his dad was a good and decent man who tried to do the right thing, and most often did, loving the practice of Public Service, and loving Lake County and the people of it.
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CULTURE DIGEST: Ashley Smith gave kidnapper crystal meth, she says in book
Posted on Sep 28, 2005 | by Erin Curry
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Fans of Ashley Smith, the young woman who was taken hostage by a man charged in the Atlanta courthouse shootings and read him portions of The Purpose-Driven Life in persuading him to surrender, were shocked Sept. 26 when news surfaced that she also gave the man some of her crystal methamphetamine and did not immediately tell police.
The information was disclosed in her book, Unlikely Angel: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Hostage Hero, which was released this week. Apparently, the night she was held captive, Smith was asked by escapee Brian Nichols if she had any marijuana. She told him she did not, but she did have some ice, or crystal meth, The New York Times reported Sept. 28.
Smith revealed that she had been struggling with a methamphetamine addiction when she was taken hostage, and the drug problem had even led to time spent in a psychiatric hospital and the loss of custody of her 5-year-old daughter.
The last time Smith used crystal meth, Smith said, was 36 hours before Nichols held a gun to her and entered her home. Nichols wanted her to use the drug with him, but she refused.
Suddenly, looking down at my drug pouch, Smith wrote, I realized that I would rather have died in my apartment than have done those drugs with Brian Nichols. If the cops were going to bust in here and find me dead, they were not going to find drugs in me when they did the autopsy. I was not going to die tonight and stand before God, having done a bunch of ice up my nose.
A special agent with the FBI has said the news of Smiths use of crystal meth in the past should not cause her to lose any of the $72,500 in reward money she received after Nichols was taken into custody, The Times said.
ATHEIST LOBBYIST TAKES ON WASHINGTON -- Lori Lipman Brown has arrived in Washington with an agenda to keep religion out of government and change the way most Americans view atheists.
As the executive director of the Secular Coalition for America, Brown, who described herself to USA Today as a soft, fuzzy atheist, plans to give a voice to those non-believers who says they have been squelched for far too long by powerful networks of conservative Christians in the nations capital.
The Secular Coalition for America was formed after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America, when atheists were made uncomfortable by the linking of God and patriotism.
Brown compares atheists today to homosexuals in the 1970s who were hesitant to come out of the closet and fight for acceptance, USA Today reported Sept. 18. She believes the atheists, humanists and freethinkers have been disrespected, stigmatized and ignored long enough, and the time has come for someone to stand up for their rights.
USA Today referred to a recent Pew Research Center poll which said just 1 percent of respondents claimed to be atheists. Brown believes people are waiting until its safe to announce they do not believe in God.
In her role as atheists first lobbyist, Brown, who was a Nevada state senator from 1992-94, intends to join coalitions that fight government policies rooted in religious beliefs, such as limits on stem cell research and access to emergency contraception, USA Today said.
She also will join with groups opposed to policies that blur the line between separation of church and state, she said, such as giving taxpayer dollars to faith-based initiatives.
But when it comes to fighting for removing the phrase under God from the Pledge of Allegiance, she need only sit tight, she said, because the courts are on our side.
Though she doesnt expect to radically change the political climate early on, Brown does hope to raise awareness of atheists views on important issues, USA Today reported.
ITS BARBIE IN AN ABAYA -- As many Muslims in the Middle East tend to be appalled by the sex-drenched American culture, one toymaker has unearthed a gold mine of sorts by offering an alternative to the curvy blonde American icon known for decades as Barbie.
Fulla, a dark-eyed doll with Muslim values, emerges from her shiny pink box wearing a black abaya and matching headscarf, The New York Times reported Sept. 21, and is accompanied by a tiny prayer rug made of pink felt.
Girls in the Middle East are overtaken by Fulla fever, begging their parents for everything from Fulla breakfast cereal, Fulla bikes, Fulla backpacks and Fulla chewing gum to girl-size prayer rugs and scarf sets in Fulla pink, The Times said.
This isnt just about putting the hijab on a Barbie doll, Fawaz Abidin, the Fulla brand manager for Syria-based creator NewBoy, said. You have to create a character that parents and children will want to relate to. Our advertising is full of positive messages about Fullas character. Shes honest, loving and caring, and she respects her father and mother.
To help convey Fullas values, a cartoon image of the doll glides across the screen in commercials on childrens television in the Middle East, The Times reported, saying her prayers as the sun rises, baking a cake to surprise her friend and reading a book at bedtime. All this as high-pitched voices sing the Fulla song in Arabic, with lyrics like, She will soon be by my side, and I can tell her my deepest secrets.
But there may be more to the Fulla revolution than excitement over her new spring abaya, according to Maan Abdul Salam, a Syrian womens rights advocate who told The Times the doll represents a trend toward Islamic conservatism sweeping the Middle East. The percentage of young Arab women who wear the hijab is much higher now than just a decade ago, he said.
If this doll had come out 10 years ago, I dont think it would have been very popular, Salam told The Times. Fulla is part of this great cultural shift.
CREATION MUSEUMS JOIN EVOLUTION BATTLE -- Debate over the origin of living things on the planet has heated up again in recent months, and museums that tout the creationist view are gaining in popularity nationwide. In fact, a new one with a $25 million price tag is being built just outside Cincinnati, Ohio, promising to be the nations largest museum devoted to creation science.
The half-finished 50,000-square-foot museum will feature animatronic dinosaurs, state-of-the-art models and graphics and six staff scientists, according to a report by The Washington Post Sept. 25. Hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected to enter the doors once it officially opens in early 2007.
Evolutionary Darwinists need to understand we are taking the dinosaurs back, Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis, the group building the museum, told The Post. This is a battle cry to recognize the science in the revealed truth of God.
Dinosaurs are a key element in the debate over whether the earth is millions of years old or just 6,000 years old, as the creation account in the Book of Genesis and other evidence leads some to believe.
The Post cited polls taken last year that show 45 percent of Americans believe that God created humans in their present form 10,000 years ago or less and that man shares no common ancestor with the ape. Just 26 percent believe that all life descended from a single ancestor, the poll said.
Young-earth creationists, like those at the creation museums, believe dinosaurs and humans walked the earth together in the Garden of Eden and then aboard Noahs Ark, The Post noted.
We call him our missionary lizard, Mark Looy, a tour guide and vice president at the Answers in Genesis museum, said of a T. rex during a walk-through at the facility. When people realize the T. rex lived in Eden, it will lead us to a discussion of the Gospel.
In Colorado, B.C. Tours, which the owners tout as biblically correct, takes a different approach by offering escorted visits to the Denver Museum of Science and Nature and local zoos and art museums where participants can hear biblical explanations for the exhibits, The New York Times reported Sept. 20.
Take a journey with our tour guides and examine the evidence of an ancient world. Decide if the evidence supports the theory of evolution or special creation, the website for B.C. Tours, www.creationtours.com, says about a visit to the Denver science museum.
Ham believes he is standing on solid ground in the creation/evolution debate because of his source of information.
We admit we have an axiom: We have a book and its the Bible and its revealed history, he told The Post. Where the Bible teaches on science, we can trust it as the word of God.
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Contract numbers, preseason predictions and more highlighted the past week of news when it came to Alabama Crimson Tide athletics.
Here are the seven stories you may have missed last week:
AL.com's annual Spring SEC Football Report, which compiles votes from the league's 14 football information directors, has South Carolina and Alabama playing for the SEC title next season.
Alabama football coach Nick Saban's new deal was approved Tuesday by the UA system Board of Trustees compensation committee. Saban will make $6.5 million per year with a $400,000 completion bonus for $6.9 million a year before performance bonuses. He made $5.5 million in 2013.
Speaking of football, one of Saban's future players was selected over the weekend by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the Major League draft.
And back to baseball where the Tide was eliminated from NCAA regional play by Kennesaw State, but it was the way the game ended that had people talking.
Keeping with the stories from the diamond, the No. 2 Alabama softball team saw its national title run ended by Florida in Women's College World Series.
AL.com's Andrew Gribble did a three-part series on Alabama signee Rashaan Evans, which included a tale about racing a horse. The first centered on Evans' recruitment and the second looked back at his history of position switches.
Finally, former Alabama defensive lineman Marcell Dareus was arrested last week for the second time in a month, this time in connection to drag racing.
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You may think you're one of the parents who has monitoring their teen's high tech conversations pretty well covered. More than 84 percent say they do.
But teens are finding ways around your watchful eyes with new apps that let them text and share photos without you ever knowing. And they've created new codes for the texts you can see, codes you need to know. Your child's safety could depend upon it.
We asked moms and their teenagers to take our technology test. We asked about new apps that allow kids to call, text and send pictures for free, as well as the latest "teen lingo."
Parents didn't score too.
Carol Coleman was surprised to learn "LMIRL" means "Let's Meet In Real Life".
Michelle Burgess successfully guessed what "GYPO" means. "Get Your Pants Off?" she asked.
We worked with SmartParents, a service that allows parents to monitor their children online, to show you what your teens could be saying on their high tech devices.
"There's been kind of an arms race between parents and technology," explains Gerry Polucci, the CEO and Founder of SmartParents. "And parents are losing."
You may think you're on top of it, watching what your kids text using the plans you pay for, but did you know there are new apps out there that allow teens to call and text for free? They don't even need a data plan.
"It's scary in a way, just not knowing," mom Carol Coleman admitted.
And there are apps that allow people to "text" pictures, which disappear from the receiver's phone in seconds.
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Some 28 percent of teens report they've texted naked photos of themselves. What teens don't realize is that the picture isn't always gone for good.
"The receiving person can take a screen shot of that on their iphone," Polucci says.
And speaking of risqué, the very latest chat terms are anything but innocent. Few of our parents knew that "GNRN" means "Get Naked Right Now" or that "IMEZRU" actually means "I'm Easy Are You?"
Teens use these abbreviations and hundreds more to "KPC" or "Keep Parents Clueless."
But they're not alone.
"Sexual predators use these terms for much the same reason," Polucci says.
Tim Woda says an online sexual predator used teen chat abbreviations like "A-L" for "Age and Location" to target his 14-year-old son.
"I was terrified," Woda said. He told police, and the man chatting with his son was arrested and pleaded guilty to "sexual solicitation of a minor".
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SmartParents suggests you monitor the apps your child downloads and stay on top of the tech lingo. Odds are your kids are.
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Karen Sue Gesell, 72, of Mt. Vernon, passed away at 9:30 a. m. Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013, at her home.
She was born April 16, 1941, the daughter of Ray Hill and Wilma (Rethorn) Hill. She married Kenneth G. Gesell in 1959, and he preceded her in death on Sept. 15, 1996. They had two sons and a daughter.
Karen is survived by her three children, Brad Gesell and wife Susan, Mark Gesell and wife Janet, and Brenda Gesell, all of Benton. She was blessed with four grandchildren, Ginnie Sloan Gesell, Samantha Gesell, Justin Gesell and Harrison Taylor; and two great-grandsons, Sylas Greyson Foster and Kace Oren Mefford. Additionally, she is survived by two sisters, Francie Smith and husband Paul, Louisville and Connie Pegues, Peoria; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was preceded in death by her father Ray, and mother Wilma.
Karen graduated from Rend Lake College in 1984 with her registered nursing degree. She spent her nursing career at and retired from Good Samaritan Hospital in Mt. Vernon. She was a member of The Order of the Eastern Star. Karen loved music and sang in the Homecoming Gospel Choir and the Harmony Roses Chorus in Mt. Vernon, which is the local chapter of the Sweet Adelines International. She loved attending church and spending time with her family and friends. She also had a special love for animals, especially dogs, with her most recent babies being two feisty rat terriers, Sofie and Sadie.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p. m. Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013, at the Hobbs-Johnson Funeral Home & Crematory in Benton with Eastern Star rites at 7 p. m.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Shiloh Cemetery in Whittington.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Jefferson County Animal Shelter, 107 E. Perkins, Mt. Vernon, IL 62864, in memory of Karen Gesell.
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44 Bradley Beach Road, Bradley Beach
- YES, We're Pet Friendly!
- Private, In-ground Pool in Yard; 4 Mins. to Beach
- Family Room Area With A Decorative Fireplace
- Dining Area, Modern Kitchen w/ Breakfast Bar
- 2 Master BR's; Balconies Overlooking Pool
- Park and Children's Playground Nearby
- Wireless Internet
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This 6 BR / 4.5 BA family vacation home, sleeps 13 and has a fabulous 16' x 32' pool with swimming dolphins fountain, a chiminea for outdoor wood fires, plenty of chairs and privacy bordered on three sides with palms and shrubbery. This reunion property is located next to a town park with playground equipment for the kids, comfort stations and is just a four minute walk to the beach on an elevated boardwalk through oaks, pines and palms.
The front door entrance, which is up one flight of stairs, is where you will come to the first of two, long front porches. Reminiscent of days gone by, the front porch offers the opportunity to rest and relax in this pretty Caribbean enclave of festive colored homes. Upon entering the front door you will walk into the first of two separate living areas. This living area, the smaller of the two, has brand new furniture with a tan and blue décor and with a TV/VCR. The sandy colored tiled flooring along with wainscoting runs throughout the entire first floor. The second living area is a ""L"" shaped great room decorated with an Americana theme in blues, reds, and tans. A large ""L"" shaped navy denim couch, a wicker-roped coffee table, 2 cinnamon and cream shell motif chairs and a decorative fireplace with a large flat screen TV mounted above and a DVD and VCR all contribute to a relaxing and comforting area for family and friends.
The adjoining dining area continues the blue, red, and tan décor with striped cushioned chairs seating 8 and a large oak table. Sliding glass doors provide access to a small back balcony with a propane grill and chairs. The open kitchen has a breakfast bar that seats four, plenty of counter space and light cabinets. Off the kitchen is the laundry room and off the great room is a hall half bath. Through a pair of french doors, there is one king master bedroom with tan and blue bedding that is joined by a private bath.
On the second level with beautiful hard wood floors are 5 more bedrooms. Two teal, lime, and aqua bedrooms each have 2 twins, oak furniture and share a full bath in the hall. Another bedroom with a twin bed and a queen bed decorated in blues, reds, and yellows shares a bath, with a separate shower, with another king bedroom decorated in calming blue and whites with white wood furniture. There is a slider to the front porch in this bedroom. Across the hall is the largest master with large king, handsome wood furniture and tan and blue bedding. There is a bath en suite and sliders to the front porch. All the bedrooms are equipped with flat screen TV's.
In the garage area you will find, for the kids, various beach, ocean and pool toys along with a pool table. Outside is the exciting pool area with a gracefully designed curved layout, tiled retaining wall and featuring a fountain of swimming dolphins. The setting is picture perfect tropical with giant palms, vines and oaks. Add to the ambiance six chairs, two recliners and the wood burning chiminea and you have a wonderful vacation setting offering a real escape from the world back home.
For larger groups you may add a 3, 4, or another 6 bedroom Bradley home that is either right across the street or next door, perfect for the family reunion, corporate, or group.
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