Can news media be more respectful? I was disgusted to see the front page of the Saturday Citizen, April 12 edition. A young man had been killed in a car accident and a family is grieving. How can people be so disrespectful in a death tragedy like this?
I would have hated to be in his family's shoes, reading the front page that day, as they are already grieving over his death. There's no reason whatsoever that a young man's past should be brought up as it had nothing to do with him getting killed. When people do get in trouble and arrested, it's in the paper already, so there's no reason to bring it up again.
No one person is perfect and I am sure we have all made mistakes at one time in our life. I know how they feel because I have a son who has been in trouble and has since changed his life around and also has two young children.
I know I wouldn't like to see something like that on the front page if something happened to him like that. There's no reason whatsoever that their past history has anything to do with that.
It seems like people should be more respectful of family members feelings when they are going through a difficult time like this. It's hard to believe the news media is full of gossip even at a time like this.
My thoughts are with the family at this grieving time. Much sympathy is sent out to the Gary Hill family.
Lona Perry
Scipio Center
No one person is perfect and I am sure we have all made mistakes at one time in our life. I know how they feel because I have a son who has been in trouble and has since changed his life around and also has two young children.
I know I wouldn't like to see something like that on the front page if something happened to him like that. There's no reason whatsoever that their past history has anything to do with that.
It seems like people should be more respectful of family members feelings when they are going through a difficult time like this. It's hard to believe the news media is full of gossip even at a time like this.
My thoughts are with the family at this grieving time. Much sympathy is sent out to the Gary Hill family.
Lona Perry
Scipio Center
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forrest wrote on Apr 18, 2008 7:38 AM:
brew1234 wrote on Apr 18, 2008 1:57 AM:
anonymous wrote on Apr 18, 2008 1:02 AM:
I am just presenting the facts a nd offering my opinion.
Have they released the toxicology yet?
We are lucky that the only person this guy killed was himself. He was an absolute menace to society. "
sonofmaddog wrote on Apr 18, 2008 12:09 AM:
MIZZMOM wrote on Apr 17, 2008 8:08 PM:
And to Mr or Ms a$$nonymous were you never taught to be careful of stones that you throw or have/are you a perfect person your comment was deff rude & crude!!! "
cldiab wrote on Apr 17, 2008 7:16 PM:
anonymous wrote on Apr 17, 2008 4:51 PM:
Hill fled at speeds exceeding 90 mph after a Department of Environmental Conservation officer tried to stop his vehicle after he had been using a spotlight and a rifle to hunt deer at about 4:30 a.m. Nov. 15, 2007. He admitted in court to being under the influence of marijuana at the time of his arrest and to having had two pounds of marijuana in a shed at his home. He had been living on Spencer Street in Lyons at the time.
Hill was facing a maximum of seven years in state prison for criminal possession of marijuana, fleeing an officer and using a spotlight and a loaded weapon to hunt for deer.
Guess we know he was a danger to himself and others, and he proved it. "