There is every indication from AC360 website that a topic of interest is the young man needing a kidney while his father is 'on the lamb' at his son's expense. The 'emoting' will end not in heroics but in a sudden truth, should the father be apprehended, that permission to remove the kidney is required. Just because the father is apprehended by a reward does not mean he has to consent to anything. Even prisoners aren't required to relinquish a body organ.
This is one of the saddest stories out there today. However, to protect the young man and his supportive public it is also the kind of story that requires perspective. When a criminal turns into a hero-father and then disappears that should be the end of the story to a greater aspect of it. The young man needs a kidney. I certainly hope he is not holding out all his hopes on a rush of conscience by a man that betrayed him.
To add a light touch to this entry. Arron Brown tends to speak so indelicately off camera. Come to think of it there were times on camera when he wasn't so delicate either. At any rate he was a first class journalist and this was a story I had in a file. I wanted to add perspective to a personality some might find they need to rescue, simply because of his leadership quality and all around nice guy status. Which he is. Aaron Brown needs no one to rescue him. He is all too adept at being intriguing, evoking, with the milder form of 'off color' humor when called for:
Media Whores no longer exists online as of today.
Rabid watchdog
While attacking what it sees as a vast, right-wing media conspiracy, an anonymous Web site has led to a growing media mystery:
Who is behind Media Whores Online?
June 3, 2002 CNN's Aaron Brown discovered he was the target of an organized campaign against him one morning in early May when his Blackberry started vibrating with the fury of hundreds of emails. "It was like magic fingers at a cheap motel," he says.
He had run afoul of the online media critics at Media Whores Online, an anonymously run Website whose writers and readers share a conviction that the mainstream media (aka "media whores") is dominated by a right-wing agenda, acts as a lapdog to President Bush and viciously attacks all things related to Bill Clinton, Al Gore or Democrats in general. So they, in turn, attack back.
The site's gimmick is to activate its readers, directing them to the latest offending "whore" to spam with e-mail arrows. And in its nearly three year history, its profile has steadily risen enough to merit increasingly frequent television and newspaper citations. All by ruffling the feathers of those easily wounded egos in journalism.
I really do miss Aaron. He was a good deal of fun as well as a first rate journalist.
Have a good weekend.
Shalom.
