About three months ago, I wrote a post detailing an opportunity I had recently received. I now handle social media over at Fox11 in Los Angeles and, let me tell you, it has been an incredible learning experience and a humbling privilege to help blaze a trail for the future of local broadcast journalism. In the time since I began, I’ve dropped in on an Occupy Los Angeles LiveStream session and helped connect my organization with the people at the front of that cause locally. I’ve been involved in some serious breaking news events where we gathered real-time information via the web and brought it into our broadcast and I even held my first Google Hangout concurrently with a newscast… the day of the Conrad Murray verdict. All that said, I think that tomorrow night may be the most important step in this journey so far!
Something heinous is taking place on the other side of the country from Fox11 in Los Angeles, yet its reach is immeasurable. In some way, shape, or form, the atrocities committed against young boys by some at Penn State University (I know the acts of pedophilia have been committed by only one, but the lack of action by others makes them guilty by association in my estimation) have shocked the nation, causing others to speak out about their own experiences with molestation. Tomorrow night at 9PM PST, at Fox11 in Los Angeles, I will be a part of a team leading a virtual discussion which precedes a broadcast discussion about much of the news still coming out of the Penn State scandal and the ramifications of sex crimes of the nature Jerry Sandusky has allegedly committed. We will be joined by a fellow blogger who has been very vocal and has pulled no punches when it comes to this topic, who blogs at SportsbyBrooks. We will also be joined by one of our anchors, Liz Habib and our legal analyst Robin Sax who has prosecuted sex crimes and brings unique perspective to the discussion as a former D.A. and a mother. Brooks will have some new info on the scandal and Liz who often handles our sports coverage will piece together where the story is now and the bigger picture which may now involve politicians in Pennsylvania.
You can join the discussion first by participating in our live webcast which begins an hour before our 10PM PST newscast at http://bit.ly/rtHl6b and on Twitter by using the hashtag, #Fox11Talks. I will also be running a Google+ Hangout from my own personal account to take question from my friends and followers there at http://gplus.to/tshakazulu. We will be cutting in during the 10PM broadcast and bringing the dialog to our viewing audience on channel 11 and then at 11:30 on channel 13 as well.
Congrats on the new gig, TS! Good for you. As for Penn State – NOT so good for them…so tragic and so easily taken care of. If it had been me, I wouldn’t have stopped SHOUTING until the whole country had heard!
Good luck with the conversation! It may be a bit too late for Atlanta time for me to chat.
That coach should’ve laid the smack down on that pedophile when/if he saw it happen. ‘Allegedly’, granted, he’s still innocent, but the culture of sports and hero worship in sports is a pity.
More young kids should aspire to be doctors, lawyers or business owners instead of athletes.
This whole Penn State thing is absolutely horrid. If true there is no excuse for anything that the University (or police) did.
On the other hand, the Grad Assistant McQueary’s story keeps unraveling (remember that he was 28 when he saw the offense). This has gone from “I saw something a little funny, talked to my dad and then went and told Joe Pa the next day” to “I saw him raping the boy” to “I stopped the rape and went to the police”. Then there’s the police (University and city) saying he never came to them.
I think SOMETHING happened, but this whole situation has gotten stranger and stranger as the days go by. If it was me, and my son told me that someone had molested him, Sandusky would not be available to be prosecuted today. If I had been the one who saw him raping the boy the police would have been called to come pick up a badly injured man.
Penn State is a disgusting organization for how they have handled this mess. People consider Coach Paterno one of the greatest? That’s a joke. I barely consider him a man after turning his back on a pedophile instead of doing the right thing which would obviously have ruined his legacy years prior to him just ruining it now.
There was a time when men were men, and acted like it. If someone was as my Korean War Vet neighbor would say “buggering a kid in a shower” they would have been dragged out and had their teeth kicked down their throat while the police arrived to take them away.. Instead we setup a chain of command guaranteeing that someone, somewhere, along the way will fail the kids that suffer at the hands of these losers.
It’s just disgusting, from start to finish. And now Syracuse incident comes out because the victim felt strength from the Penn State mess.. How far does it go? When does it stop? Start making real examples of these pedophiles instead of jailing and “rehabing” them.. You can’t rehab a monster.
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