ARCHIVE 11

ALSO COMING!

Also coming soon to this website - my incredible recipe for Cream of Dried Beef (yes, there is a “secret” ingredient) and “BeingReal - Get Lost!”

You had to go this low to post an article about a woman possibly abusing a man? Click here for, “Daly Tells Police Wife Attacked Him With Knife.”

Those are not knife marks. Somebody (gasp!) scratched him or maybe this winner did it to himself.

Hey, BeingReal, why don’t you tell us your favorite Lancaster pizza joint? Huh? Maybe because you’re a total fraud and liar? Who knew?

~ It’s Not Fine! ~

A RACE ISSUE?

“My office is right in the middle of downtown Lancaster, and on Tuesdays and Fridays I’m over at market - Meck’s, mostly - and down to the bank or the drugstore or even the pawn shop at the end of the block down by Prince Street, looking for cheap guitars. And it’s all perfectly safe, I’ve never felt otherwise. My experience of ‘city life’ is, well, fine.”

Sunday News assistant editor Gil Smart in his “blog.”

Sometimes people are so stupid, blind and arrogant it almost knocks you off your feet. But when that person should know better and is a “public figure,” it is disgusting and unacceptable.

Smart walks twenty-five feet or less to go to Market on Tuesdays and Fridays in the middle of the day! Wow!

Yes, he leaves the fortified Lancaster Newspaper office and walks across the street! He even says sometimes he walks one whole block down Prince Street (gasp!) and goes to a pawn shop.

And Smart declares the city is “safe.”

And after his one block foray into city life, Smart returns to his office where you have to be buzzed in or have a card to enter. But that only gets you in the lobby – to move anywhere else in the building you have to have an access card or be allowed in.

Does that sound like the city is safe to you? This is a newspaper office, for heaven’s sake. What do you suppose they are so afraid of?

And Smart returns to his editorial room where the Lancaster Sunday News does not have a minority reporter or editor in a city that is 35% Hispanic and 15% black.

And then, Smart gets a revelation:

It’s a race issue to the extent that the blacks and Latinos doing the shootings are of the underclass.

Gee. Do you think, Smart? They certainly can’t get a job at the Lancaster Newspapers, that’s for sure. Why is that?

But his very next sentence, after his amazing discovery that it may have something to do with race and class, Smart says this:

Essentially, you have a tremendous amount of poor Latino and to a lesser extent black families in the city, you have children having children, you have fathers who are not around and thus kids who are growing up without any paternal role models - Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote about all of this 42 years ago. It’s still happening. We really don’t talk about it.

So, this doesn’t happen in white families, Smart? This doesn’t happen in the nice, white, up-scale community where you live?

What a load of bullshit. This is blatant, disgusting racism and Smart should be fired.

Smart ends his blog entry with this:

I’m going to write about this for the print edition this week, maybe the perception versus reality aspect. It is the topic du jour, these shootings just keep on happening and the summer’s only just begun. It is going to be a long, hot one.

I thought the one block of the city you travel was safe, Smart? Now “these shootings just keep on happening?”

Oh, I can’t wait to read your thoughts about this tomorrow. The white, spoiled frat-brat is going to tell us all about the reality of it. Don’t worry – I’ll be right here.

Smart is so stupid he can’t see the racism literally all around him - because he is a racist. On top of that he’s a liar and an arrogant, lousy writer and editor. I hear the Lancaster Newspapers are in need of a janitor, Smart.

Please check back tomorrow.

Argh… I apologize. It’s been a crazy day and I just don’t have time to put up a “quality” post. I don’t want to be like Smart, who as of 4:10 p.m. today, has already made six stupid posts! Doesn’t he have any “real” work to do?

Tomorrow – Smart, the McCaskey graduation, Art Morris and the cop who was shot with his own gun…

PLEASE CHECK BACK LATER TODAY…

~ And A Racist! ~

SPOILED, WHITE,

FRAT-BRAT

"His neighborhood, as with much of the West End, has seen an increase in crime, and the constant presence of a large group of teenage kids, many of them African-American, congregating in the alley behind his house might make some people nervous."
From a Sunday News article last July by Gil Smart about David Porter and his Tornado Alley Hoops.

I posted the following on ReporterTalk.com on July 23, 2006, under a thread I had begun about racism in Lancaster.
How did this sentence make it to print? Because the Lancaster Sunday News does not have one single minority on their staff. The city of Lancaster, PA is 30% Hispanic and 15% African American. This is an outrage. This sentence was written by Gil Smart, who is the subject of a different thread on this board. He should be fired.

I was serious then and I’m serious now. That sentence shouldn’t have, and wouldn’t have, been published in any other paper in this country with a circulation the size of the Sunday News. Their reporters and editors would see it for the blatantly racist statement that it is. It wouldn’t have been written, and if it had, an editor would have deleted it and called Smart on the carpet.

My very first post ever on the old site almost three years ago was a parody of a stupid Smart article about how he became “liberal” and the “Talkback” below it titled, “How I Got Smart..” My second sentence:

I am a spoiled, white, frat-brat and I’m proud.

Yesterday, Smart posted a piece on his blog, “They got ‘fed up,’ then it got worse.” No, Smart has gotten worse and I am fed up to here with his racism. Tomorrow I will take a look at that piece and why the spoiled, white, frat-brat should be fired.

“How I Got Smart” is here.

GET LOST, SMART!

That did it, Smart! I am so “fed up” with you, I can’t stand it. Get lost - you arrogant, pathetic sicko. Please check back later today… Get lost Smart! You bring Lancaster down every single day… Get lost!

~ And Smart! ~

BAIT-AND-SWITCH!

It's the old bait-and-switch, compliments of tabloid culture: A newspaper headline grabs my eye, and I start to read the front-page story beneath it. But instead of immediately learning the pertinent facts, I'm treated to something like this: The demure woman in a beige pantsuit gazes from glazed eyes at what used to be her life's dream.

The lead sentence and paragraph in, “Hey, journalists, enough with the fancy leads already,” The Christian Science Monitor (click here).

A very interesting, brief read. Everyone at the Lancaster Newspapers should read it with special emphasis on Gil Smart and Marv Adams of the Sunday News. I will come back to this and the leads in the three child sexual assault cases last week that are on this website shortly.

PASSIONATE?

The joy of newspaper forums is that sometimes you get an intelligent post from an angle you never considered – about a story you would never otherwise read. Such was the case with Ad Crable’s New Era story yesterday, “A question of baiting.” Now for this kind of story, Crable’s lead wasn’t bad – but I read his opening sentence and read no more. Not my kind of story unless it’s an update on the missing piebald deer, “Baby.”

But a new Talkbacker posted this:

Unbelievable!
In any other context of life, saying you are "passionate" about killing would raise a red flag of caution about a person's mental stability. Not so with hunters.

Passionate deer hunter!

“When man wantonly destroys one of the works of man, we call him a vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God, we call him a sportsman." ~ Joseph Wood-Krutch - The Great Chain of Life.

Good point. And then, of course, I had to read the article to find the “passionate deer hunter” reference and learned more about this topic than I ever cared to know. But apparently some hunters have been setting others up and getting them in trouble and doing all kinds of outrageous and wonderful things. The story says this:

Mohr related several episodes he said he was involved with. In one, he said a disgruntled employee from Lancaster County put bait near the tree stands of former bosses the night before archery season, then called game wardens.
Three hunters were busted and the charges stuck even though Mohr said he tried to convince the wildlife conservation officers it was a setup.

What a hoot! Can you believe it and where are the names of those involved, Crable? One Talkbacker said former Commissioner Pete Shaub might have been one of the targets! Remember when the jerk was caught in the park after dark chasing a deer!!!

And another Talkbacker saw a quick, but not exactly honest or nice way around all of this nonsense:

All one need do is place "bait" in the desired spot for several months prior to the "season" and then remove it a day or so before the season!!!!

Well, all of this is more than I need to know. “Passionate deer hunters!” What a hoot! Is your dear passionate?

360 POINTS?

The Intell is about to join the other two papers in the Lancaster Online blogs. I’m so excited – not! Yes, reporter Dave Pidgeon has started “Base Camp” and posted his first entry which ends with this ground-breaking question:

Welcome to Base Camp. The compass has 360 points. Which one will we follow today?

Dave, “we” won’t be following any compass points together. Argh… The upside? Maybe it’s better than reading his totally skewed and slanted convention center articles. Is his blog a payback by Buckwalter for a job well done?

Let’s see if any of the “Intell five,” those involved in Coronergate, get blogs! I doubt it. Brett Lovelace is a loose cannon and a liar. Hey, Ron Harper, Jr., when are you going to publish what Lovelace did?

I HAVE TO DO IT!

I just got done reading Becky’s site and then Shut Up’s post. As much as I disagree with Gil, I am beginning to feel sorry for him.

Posted under Gil Smart’s blog yesterday.

Oh, for heavan’s sake, Goldi. Are you kidding? Don’t feel sorry for the man! He gets paid very well to do nothing. He surfs his favorite sites and posts quotes from them all day long! I’d take his job in a minute! “Yes, Jack [Buckwalter], I’ve been watching and listening to music on youtube all day - but it’s for my blog, Jack! I have to do it!”

And the poster “Shut up and get to work” just continues to harangue Smart.

    Golilocks feeling sorry? Please, Gil and the rest of the "Journalists" at LNP don't have an ounce of credibility between them. The biggest county rip-off in years happens under their noses and not one of them can type a word. That's pathetic.
    I'm actually embarrassed for them. I'd quit my job before selling out my integrity.
    This just shows you the quality of "Journalist" we are dealing with at LNP. Y ou don't even have to be an investigative journalist to report on the convention center, Hell even the Obituary writer could put together a story on it. Again, in the meanwhile we'll see the easy pot shots at Bush whaahhhh.

Well, I don’t agree with this poster’s politics and I still think it might be the “Crow” – or a Crow plant. But I am enjoying some of his posts.

And thank you, Goldi, for reading my site! Have I ever said anything bad about you? Never. I’m quite sure…

SAY WHAT?

“Journalists would help many of their readers immensely if they would recognize, as they once did, the clear distinction between hard news (the timely, front-section information) and feature material, the less timely reporting that's more creatively structured.

“…I fell under the spell of New Journalism when I was a 20-year-old reporter in the Marines. I began turning in copy with ‘alternative’ leads and distracting details. Soon I was standing tall before ‘the man,’ whose pithy advice was actually an order: ‘Ames, just get in, tell 'em what you gotta tell 'em, then get the hell out.’”

Who knew? LIP News, of course. Please check back later today…

~ Investigate Totaro ~

DUMBER THAN DIRT!

Lancaster County District Attorney Donald Totaro must think the general public is dumber than dirt - or maybe it's really him that is dumber than dirt.. Last week I published this quote from a Talkbacker and underneath it said, “You are dumber than dirt!”:

Shame on People magazine and the big mouth who blabbed this. This is exactly the kind of information that should be kept quiet. If those shoes weren't already gone, you can bet they're gone now.

Today, the Intell printed this almost identical quote from Totaro about the information in People Magazine in their article, “Reward in Haines case hits $17,000” (click here).

Lancaster County District Attorney Don Totaro expressed displeasure with the article over the weekend.

"While I am not in any way confirming the accuracy of People Magazine, this article will certainly encourage the killer to get rid of the shoes they wore to the crime scene if they had not already done so," he said. "And if the story is accurate, a critical piece of evidence connecting the killer to the scene will now be destroyed."

Please! Is there anyone who thinks that with all the blood in that house the killer didn’t leave a bloody shoe print (or prints)? Is this news to anyone? If the killer didn’t throw the shoes out long ago, they’re pretty damn stupid.

Next there will be a news report that the killer’s clothes must have been bloody and Totaro will allege this compromises the case because the killer will now throw the clothes out! Please!

This man is running for judge! This is an outrage. And, of course, the big information in the article was that the bloodhounds tracked the killer’s path to a Freez & Frizz over two miles from the crime scene. That drastically changes the nature of the crime.

And as several Talkbackers posted, if the DA had told the public this earlier, residents along the track might have seen or found something relevant they could have revealed.

Investigate Totaro. This man is a disgrace.

Tomorrow – the coroner and the DA.

SORRY LITTLE MAN!

Well, the great Gil Smart has deleted the link to this site and another site on his blog (see the box immediately below). What a hoot! But actually it’s also very sad. Those details I’m not at liberty to go into at this time.

But what a sorry little man Smart is. I consider it an honor not to be on your blog, Smart. Beware the company you keep and I want none of yours. Smart also falls into the dumber than dirt category.

~ Don’t Smear Me! ~

WORD SMART

Bullshit Becky. You'd smear her in order to smear me.

An email from Sunday News assistant editor Gil Smart yesterday.

My reply yesterday:

You're pathetic. You have one website exposing you for the terrible reporter/journalist that you are and you are crying. You wouldn't last one day in Philadelphia. You don't know the word "smear." I still remember the deer caught in the headlights look in your eyes when I handed you a copy of the Lancaster Lynching Story of LIP years ago. Yes, some papers actually have competition!!!

Yes, some towns actually have independent, competing presses, and if you think I can smear you, imagine what a true, competitive news organization could do to you in one day. You and more than half of the reporters/editors at Lancaster Newspapers would be laughing stocks and fired immediately. Probably more likely every one of you.

Hey, what's two grand juries in less than four years? And what did they accomplish? How come People Magazine got info your papers didn't? (I have actually had people email me that question and I howl in response!)

You are not a journalist. You are not a columnist. You have absolutely no where to go. I would continue to kiss Buckwalter's butt repeatedly and often if I were you. You have no talent and nobody wants you. (But I'm sure you've been testing those waters for years and already know what I'm saying is true.)

You're nothing but bullshit, Smart.

Please check back late this afternoon…

~ And Writing! ~

AWESOME

Well, well, well. Angry emails and IM’s are flying! I will try to make some sense of all of this over the next few days.

A man shoots five people in Lancaster. Jesus. This is simply unbelievable.

I still have a great deal to say about the Haines case, the DA, the coroner and the People article; the journalism awards or lack there of by the Lancaster Newspapers, Smart’s article and the fact there were three major child sexual abuse stories in the papers last week; journalism integrity and objectivity; Professor Eller and my parents and more.

I am just too tired today. So I’ll tell you some happy things. On Saturday I saw an excellent band recreate the Sergeant Pepper album including all the songs and done in full costume. It was quite an event.

Last night I saw an excellent band that came together after months of being apart. The reunion was spurred by a member who emailed the others – “I will die if I don’t play soon.” I understand. That’s me and writing. I’m just so dang tired…

I also saw a number of other excellent musicians including a woman who is going to hit the big time. If you ever want to know about the music scene in Philly – contact me – I have an “inside” line. I cook at the bar where they play! Yes, my life is changing in so many ways – but it’s getting better – a little bit better all the time.

Hey, Jake, you guys were awesome. That San Antonio song rocked! I hope you won’t die now or anytime soon...

Please check back tomorrow.

JOURNALISM “OBJECTIVITY”

These are the lead sentences in three child sexual abuse stories from the Lancaster Newspapers last week. Please check back late this afternoon…

An 82-year-old Morgantown man was sentenced today to at least five years in state prison for a string of sexual assaults on a child 20 years ago.
”Man, 82, jailed for molesting girl in ‘80s,” Anya Litvak, New Era, June 1, 2007.

Everyone deserves a second chance, said Gary Smith.

“Charged actor back on stage,” Gil Smart, Sunday News, June 3, 2007.

Friday was David and Barbara Eller's 28th wedding anniversary.
”Child-sex sting: Ex-prof jailed," Janet Kelley, New Era, June 2, 2007.

~ Babies ~

ABSOLUTE OUTRAGE

Today’s Sunday News is an absolute disgrace on many levels. The article choices, the photo choices and the layout are dreadful.

But Editor Marv Adams and Assistant Editor Gil Smart have gone to an all new low this week with Smart’s front page “news story,” “Charged actor back on stage” (click here).

It will be the first time Spiese has been onstage since being charged in Lebanon County with three felony counts of sexual abuse of children for possessing more than five dozen pictures, and two movies, of underage boys and girls in sexual scenes.

…Spiese is charged with downloading 63 photographs of nude or seminude preteens, along with two movie files, including one that showed pre-school-age children.

Quotes from Smart’s article.

This is a disgusting, sick outrage. This demonstrates how little our society cares about sexual abuse and children. While the papers run stories about an 82 year-old man and an ex-Elizabethtown professor being jailed for sexually molesting and attempting to molest children, the Sunday News runs this absurd, horrendous piece in which Smart apparently thinks that all of this is just fine and dandy.

“Pre-school-age children.” Babies. The man was viewing naked babies for sexual gratification. Can you begin to even imagine this?

Maybe Smart will offer him naked pictures of his new baby? Smart, of all people, should be aware of the tragedy and cost of sexual abuse on individuals and our society. He has a family member who is a direct victim. This is simply disgusting.

Gil Smart and Marv Adams should be fired immediately.

(Please note in the box immediately below, I was having fun with Adams' incredibly stupid column this week. It was before I read the above article. Adams should not have one single day left as editor of the Sunday News.)

There will be more tomorrow.

~ But Is It Near Enough? ~

END IS NEAR!

By BECKY HOLZINGER, Editorially Speaking
LIP News

Published: Jun 03, 2007 12:01 AM EST

Notes, quotes and an observation:

Whoever said time flies wasn't watching the countdown (on this site) for the number of days left in the “job” of Sunday News editor Marv Adams.

It's less than 215 days and dragging.

************

Really, really dragging. (Hey, do you suppose both Marv and Smart are gay hookers? Whose end is not near enough, Marv? What do you want to do to their “end? Do you dress in drag, Marv?)

Yikes! What a story! Who knew? LIP News, of course. Please check back later today…