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 Post subject: Chicago Tribune
PostPosted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 2:55 pm 
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ABCNews.com reports: Hall of Famer and former Bears running back George McAfee died in an Atlanta assisted-living facility in 2009 when, after having developed dementia, he wandered unsupervised into a cleaning room and drank from a bottle of industrial-strength detergent.

The caustic chemical burned McAfee's lips, esophagus and lungs and he died a short time later in a hospital, according to his family, which settled with the company that ran the facility


Really? This is 2013. Why the hell would this be in the paper now?

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 3:12 pm 
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ABCNews.com reports: Hall of Famer and former Bears running back George McAfee died in an Atlanta assisted-living facility in 2009 when, after having developed dementia, he wandered unsupervised into a cleaning room and drank from a bottle of industrial-strength detergent.

The caustic chemical burned McAfee's lips, esophagus and lungs and he died a short time later in a hospital, according to his family, which settled with the company that ran the facility


Really? This is 2013. Why the hell would this be in the paper now?


This just happened.

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 Post subject: Re: Chicago Tribune
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12:25 p.m. CDT, July 31, 2013



ABCNews.com reports: Hall of Famer and former Bears running back George McAfee died in an Atlanta assisted-living facility in 2009 when, after having developed dementia, he wandered unsupervised into a cleaning room and drank from a bottle of industrial-strength detergent.

The caustic chemical burned McAfee's lips, esophagus and lungs and he died a short time later in a hospital, according to his family, which settled with the company that ran the facility


Really? This is 2013. Why the hell would this be in the paper now?


This just happened.

His death in 2009 just happened?

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The part in bold. They just settled with the company from the 2009 death.

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No dummy, the settlement with the assisted living company just happened, as well as the PBS documentary.

Well the settlement nor the documentary were the subject of the headline nor the first paragraph of the story, his death was. The settlement was basically the last thing they mentioned and I don't think the trib article mentioned the documentary at all.
So instead of douching them for a 4 year old story how about for terrible writing and editing?

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Hi. I have to go now. No, seriously.

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Shit reporting is shit reporting. Apparently creating a readable story isn't party of "journalism" - such as it is - anymore.

Seconded.

(would've been much more entertaining if McAfee had died from some unknown virus .... just sayin')

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Darkside wrote:
Keeping Score wrote:
No dummy, the settlement with the assisted living company just happened, as well as the PBS documentary.

Well the settlement nor the documentary were the subject of the headline nor the first paragraph of the story, his death was. The settlement was basically the last thing they mentioned and I don't think the trib article mentioned the documentary at all.
So instead of douching them for a 4 year old story how about for terrible writing and editing?


Did anyone search to see if they mentioned the death back in 2009 when it actually happened? Or is this the first they're reporting on it?
And yes, it is bad writing and editing, regardless.

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There goes my "industrial-strength detergent recommendations" thread.
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 Post subject: Re: Chicago Tribune
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The company tried to scrub their record clean of this story.

Even after all these years it still chokes me up.

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The company tried to scrub their record clean of this story.

Even after all these years it still chokes me up.

I wonder what brand it was?
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