I don’t see you Wild Bill commenting on the positive stories running right now. A missionary couple going to south america, a veteran’s trip to washington, an interesting history piece about atmore, kids playing volleyball, a well-researched and totally cool article we will read nowhere else about earthquakes here where we live, dulcimer players at the old folks home, a barn bash, homecoming and williams station day. Yep, I can see william is just running mug shots and nothing else.

And what’s wrong with him making personal gain? He obviously busts his butt 7 days a week, sometimes at 3 a.m. to bring us the news. We are all appreciative of what he does, and I for one want to see him make as much money as possible. Sometimes I think he spends too much time serving the community and people feel like it is his obligation to do this site. He provides it to us for free (how many free local newspaper have you picked up lately?) and he deserves personal gain.

My point is “The story is fine, the pictures of the animals are fine, but is it REALLY necessary to post the pictures of the ACCUSED until they have been found guilty?

I agree William does an okay job reporting the local “feel good” stories and the occaisional ambulance chaser story, but I think recently he has gone overboard in an attempt to publically embarrass people for his own personal gain. I see this as a downward trend in his professional judgement.

“Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself. ”
— Confucius

I, for one, appreciate William’s reporting. If not for this news site, it would be days, perhaps weeks, before I would know what is happening in this area. I certainly can’t rely on Pensacola or Atmore reporting much of anything.

Unfortunately, not everything in life is a “feel good” story.

When two people in a dumpy trashy trailer that very few people knew were arrested for the same thing, northescambia was great for printing the story and PER was great for busting them:

http://www.northescambia.com/?p=9702
http://www.northescambia.com/?p=9347

Everybody likes to read the stories about those people and praise PER. Everybody likes to read the stories about the crackheads that are busted for doing more crack, or the meth heads that get busted.

But when it was your friends, Wild Bill & Robert Hudson, that got busted, you set off to trash PER and northescambia.

I think thousands of people agree that northescambia does a great job of covering ALL of the news. THe good, the bad and real ugly. Everybody is fine with that unless it’s about them. Don’t get arrested, and you won’t be in the news.

I’m sure if they are found innocent, William will run a story. Until then, he has reported what happened. They were arrested and booked in JAIL like the other suspected criminals. You just don’t like it because they are your friends.

If you have issue with anyone, it should be with William because he is the one who saw the need to publically embarrass your friends without knowing the full story. He chose to publically humiliate them without giving them the benefit of being innocent until proven guilty. PER did what they thought was in the best interest of the animals. The ECSO followed the letter of the law. It is NorthEscambia.com who has caused your friends to be publically stoned, tarred and feathered. William most certainly acted within the letter of the law by publishing this story and their photos, but I also certainly think he acted carelessly and maliciously by publishing this story and their accompanying photos without knowing the whole story. But that is what happens when we put the value of the advertising dollar ahead of human compassion. In my opinion, arrest photos should not be public information unless the person(s) have been found guilty or pose a threat to the public at large. Neither of which is the case in this particular story.

I liked this newsforum better when it was more about the “feel good” stories and less like every other media outlet. Sad to see it heading that direction……….