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[getback]

I really don't understand why the people are mad at TMZ, what they're doing is a constitutionally protected activity.

Constitutional ≠ Ethical

I could go take a cell phone video of a fatal car wreck and it would be constitutionally protected.

 

[casper90403]

They released the news before even informing Kobe's family.

Right? Seems pretty self explanatory. Its F'd up.

 

[casper90403]

Kawhi bought a whole damn train? This dude really a robot

he did not.

 

[chrisftdot]

 

[amitt5504]

While TMZ had the news correct they are also trash for announcing it before the family knew

 

[everysingletime]

Flying in a commercial plane they have copilots, and I think they are stricter about flying when conditions aren't ideal.

I could be wrong but I think there are way more accidents flying private than commercial.

 

[dman14]

cassidy not even paying to mark jones and rj when they threw it back to her for

 

[MajinZuub]

Strong woman right there

 

[casper90403]

MambaOnThree.org is not working for me. Anyone else? Imagine its blowing up right now

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Kawhi uncertain on future helicopter commutes

Kawhi Leonard has a Los Angeles residence but has stayed at his San Diego home when he can, using the same helicopter and pilot as Kobe Bryant for his commute. He said he hasn't been able to think about whether Bryant's crash has given him pause.

www.espn.com

Come on dude there’s luxury condos sprouting up all over DTLA buy out a floor and drive home when traffic is light.

Edit: hell buy a damn train and use the Amtrak tracks ride can’t be longer than an hour and a half

Just to link a quick audio clip, I never thought of the possibility that this same chopper was taxi'ing another player around. Turns out Kawhi and Kobe were basically getting picked up and dropped off right after each other

 

[chrisftdot]

Cassidy Hubbarth got thic

 

[frink85]

MambaOnThree.org is not working for me. Anyone else? Imagine its blowing up right now

same. Server traffic prob went from 0 to 1047582027 million in seconds

 

[getback]

TMZ deserves all the smoke.

When there's a tragedy (car accident, shooting, etc) you usually hear "police have not released the names of the victims" or something along those lines, so the family can first be notified.

TMZ doesn't adhere to those journalistic standards or ethics because they're vultures. This isn't new. They don't care about people.

 

[Air Pope]

They released the news before even informing Kobe's family.

If they didn’t, someone else would’ve did the same thing. The age of information is a real gift and a curse

 

[getback]

If they didn’t, someone else would’ve did the same thing.

And they would have been just as wrong.

This is the problem. There shouldn't be a "race" to break tragic news for the sake of clout.

 

[niketock88]

yeah it’s legal, but it’s at best in poor taste and at worst despicable.

they reported the story around two hours before any other major outlet said anything. The others assuredly doing their due diligence and having journalistic integrity. IMO tmz and whoever their inside source is should feel awful.

Yeah they sit around on the TV show and gossip, crapping on each other, Acting like a bunch of showoff know it alls trying to impress the goofball with the water bottle. They definitely don’t know anything about common courtesy. Hi TMZ this one time you couldn’t keep your mouth closed? Or at least say something to Kobe’s family first. Show business is savage especially in LA

 

[freeze]

I really don't understand why the people are mad at TMZ, what they're doing is a constitutionally protected activity.

The majority of news media would of have published that of it was confirmed.

People should be mad at those that are selling that type of information.

Period. I'm not mad at tmz. I appreciate news as long as it's accurate. They happened to be first. Now people mad. Let it had been the Idaho Bugle then.

 

[sohi 23]

TMZ isn’t wrong for reporting the news.
if they didn’t do it, someone else was going to do it.
It’s the age of instant information

 

[lawdog1]

She posted an article bashing Kobe's past in the wake of his death.

Meanwhile, she offered herself as a date to the Super Bowl in 2007.

This is not a defense, but Spain’s article is like the 3rd one I’ve seen with a similar theme, i.e. - you can’t remember Kobe without acknowledging the bad things he did, including Eagle. I don’t agree with that, but I suppose it’s only natural some people would take that position in the Me Too era.

At the end of the day, those kinds of articles aren’t going to anything to diminish his legacy or memory to most people.

 

[tay1]

The death of a loved one shouldn’t be reported on until the family gives the ok

 

[lawdog1]

TMZ wouldn’t exist if we didn’t have a culture where people feel they’re entitled to know everything about celebrities’ lives. People who watch the show and frequent the TMZ website are as much to blame as anyone else.

 

[getback]

TMZ isn’t wrong for reporting the news.
if they didn’t do it, someone else was going to do it.
It’s the age of instant information

They were wrong for doing it before the family knew.

You think Vanessa wanted to find out her husband and child died via a bottom ticker on TV or social media?

 

[antidope]

I give Mrs Bryant all the props for even putting that post up.

 

[sohi 23]

They were wrong for doing it before the family knew.

You think Vanessa wanted to find out her husband and child died via a bottom ticker on TV or social media?

I don’t disagree but they definitely confirmed with their sources before posting. They weren’t wrong.

If they didn’t post it, someone else would’ve posted it 2 minutes later. It is what it is.

 

[Air Pope]

Vanessa Bryant is the GOAT