internet crazies versus Comic Book Movie

Posted by Joshua S. Hill

February 2, 2008

Looks like the internet crazies are at it again, but this time they’re focusing their wrath on my beloved Comic Book Movie. Up front, yes, I write for CBM, and have been a long time follower of their website prior to my employment there. But seriously people…

For the long background, all you have to do is read this article.

But in short, there are a whole heap of people taking umbrage with the fact that we’ve used the term “apparent drug overdose” in our reports on Heath Ledger’s death. One reader believes we are “smearing his name” by using terms like “apparent drug overdose” and “another star lost to drugs.”

Well, so what?

This is where it all goes to hell in a handbasket. These crazies are upset that we are telling the truth? Is that their problem? Apparently, news reporting must molly-coddle everyone in the aftermath of a tragedy. Can you imagine how that would have looked for say, the Boxing Day Tsunami?

Nasty Big Wave Might Have Accidentally …

Good grief people, this is the news! Prescription drugs were found next to his body, he has a history of illicit drug use, and the man was a phenomenal actor who put his entire soul and being in to a performance; imagine what that would have been like with a role like The Joker!

Jim Littler, our head man at CBM, has rightfully hit back at our critics. “It seems to me that lots of the overly emotional Heath lover’s out there are being just a little too sensitive, and are lashing out at the press as a way to ease their pain. Look, we all wish that Heath Ledger was alive and well, but to attack a news site just for reporting the cold hard facts is a bit stupid.”

This is, sadly, not an atypical response for the internet as a whole. People seem to believe that by pointing out the hard truth, we are purposefully trashing the focal point. The simple fact is that it is possible that Heath Ledger OD’d on prescription medication, and that is what we are reporting! Anything else would be bad journalism, and that is not what we are about. If you are so sentimentally sensitive about this, then I would suggest a cup of warm milk and a lie down.

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