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 Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:28 am
Twitter Definition : Verb, to use a cell phone, black berry, PDA to text events occuring moment to moment, like blogging a time-line.
Journalists Twitter for various reasons, it conveniently time stamps every notation for accurate and historical recording, people have used it to document police stand offs, political conventions and speeches, anything that is news worthy enough and people need a time line of events as they happen.
The Rocky Mountain News recently covered a 23 year old illegal immigrant who plowed his truck through a Baskin Robbins and killed 2 women and 4 year old boy.
Now, illegal immigration, licensing for undocumented workers and the whole deportation issue are controversial topics that require a lot of debate and have no place on this forum.
But...
For some odd reason, the Rocky Mountain News editors thought it would be a good idea to twitter the funeral of the 4 year old boy. The funeral was a Jewish Funeral and the twitter was published unedited.
The twitter blog reads as follows from
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/sep/09/ritter-says-system-failed-hernandez-case/
(Keep in mind that twitter blogs are like email and are recorded in reverse chronological order, so the earliest events are on the bottom, later events are on the top.)
RMN_Berny: family members shovel earth into grave
Wednesday, Sep. 10, 11:40 a.m.
RMN_Berny: rabbi calls end to ceremony
Wednesday, Sep. 10, 11:28 a.m.
RMN_Berny: rabbi chanting final prayer in hebrew
Wednesday, Sep. 10, 11:27 a.m.
RMN_Berny: earth being placed on coffin.
Wednesday, Sep. 10, 11:22 a.m.
RMN_Berny: rabbi recites the main hebrew prayer of death
Wednesday, Sep. 10, 11:20 a.m.
RMN_Berny: rabbi zucker praying
Wednesday, Sep. 10, 11:18 a.m.
RMN_Berny: coffin lowered into ground
Wednesday, Sep. 10, 11:18 a.m.
RMN_Berny: people gathering at graveside
Wednesday, Sep. 10, 11:14 a.m.
RMN_Berny: procession begins
Wednesday, Sep. 10, 11:01 a.m.
RMN_Berny: cars queueing up to follow hearse
Wednesday, Sep. 10, 10:59 a.m.
RMN_Berny: pallbearers carry out coffin followed by mourners.
Wednesday, Sep. 10, 10:48 a.m.
RMN_Berny: people again are sobbing. rabbi again asks god to give marten everlasting life.
Wednesday, Sep. 10, 10:46 a.m.
RMN_Berny: video shows marten blowing out candles on birthday cake, marten with dog. last images are of headlines.
Wednesday, Sep. 10, 10:44 a.m.
RMN_Berny: video of marten is projected on screen.
Wednesday, Sep. 10, 10:32 a.m.
RMN_Berny: rabbi says marten is close to god now.
Wednesday, Sep. 10, 10:31 a.m.
RMN_Berny: rabbi says marten loved to be tickled. calls the death a nightmare. no words can sooth us, he says.
Wednesday, Sep. 10, 10:28 a.m.
RMN_Berny: family member says marten is with grandmother who died last year. ' marten we loved you,' he says. People sobbing.
Wednesday, Sep. 10, 10:22 a.m.
RMN_Berny: family member remembers marten.
Wednesday, Sep. 10, 10:20 a.m.
RMN_Berny: rabbi says we will always remember marten and he will live in our memory.
Wednesday, Sep. 10, 10:18 a.m.
RMN_Berny: rabbi recites 23rd psalm.
Wednesday, Sep. 10, 10:16 a.m.
Now... as a journalist I understand there are times and places and needs to twitter things, however I question the wisdom of going to a Funeral, Jewish or otherwise with a little electronic box and type out play by plays of a grieving family. Also I question the word use of line 9/10 11:20
But maybe it's a good thing, to record a modern Jewish funeral for the world to view and take notes on... for some... odd, reason.
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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:41 am
I agree, this is in very poor taste.
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Eloquent Conversationalist
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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:23 am
This is very destressing... and more than a little disrespectful.
I'm more than a little shocked that someone had the audacity to actually record a funeral.
However...
As you said, perhaps it's a good thing people understand how we celebrate (and mourn). It helps people with the *slight* ignorance of our religion, of which I have some experience. And the family and rabbi probably gave permission.
It depends on whether or not you believe that someone recording a funeral outweighs the fact that now several thousand people know how we part with our late loved ones.
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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:09 pm
Behatzlacha-S This is very destressing... and more than a little disrespectful. I'm more than a little shocked that someone had the audacity to actually record a funeral. However...As you said, perhaps it's a good thing people understand how we celebrate (and mourn). It helps people with the *slight* ignorance of our religion, of which I have some experience. And the family and rabbi probably gave permission. It depends on whether or not you believe that someone recording a funeral outweighs the fact that now several thousand people know how we part with our late loved ones. I agree. I just think the whole idea of doing so for a funeral is very offensive and gets rid of the entire emotional aspect of it. It's great to learn about Judaism, but I feel there are much more respectful ways to do so.
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darkphoenix1247 Vice Captain
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Eloquent Conversationalist
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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:03 am
Some people might allow *discreet* videotaping at a funeral, and that could be shared. Twitter, though? Essentially, they're just spending the whole funeral texting their friends, which I think is very insensitive and low class.
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