The lack of capitalization and the extreme shortness of the tweets comes across as rude, while a fully formed sentence structure would impart formality, and therefore respect, to the tweets.

Shame on all of you that focus solely on the method of reporting and not on the tragedy being reported.

I don’t mind people twittering about their lives, this was part of the reporter’s life – he was there, he didn’t know the girl, he gave the play by play of what was happening.

Now if he had stood up in the front and gone “OMG I’m totally twittering this” – or interfered with the funeral, then I’d call him out.

But death, funerals, dying shouldn’t be censored. If my friend can twitter from the birthing room about her child being born, we should be able to twitter at the beside of a dying person – or at their funeral.

Not like what this doorknob did in “reporting” a tragedy. Yo Berny, drop me a line as i would love to hear your insightful perspective over a beer.

It like having a reporter take pictures at the gravesite. Nothing could more cold and heartless. My prayers, positive thoughts and well wishes go out to this family in their time of loss.

Rodney Rumford

I’m in Denver, so I saw the “comment” below before I saw anything from the funeral, and I just looked online and saw that this story is linked up in the header of the site, so it’s not exactly hiding.

http://www.rock...aste-questions/

Look, the commenters who say this isn’t worthy of TC coverage are just wrong, but TC coverage that makes it seem like local journalists aren’t thinking about what they are doing is even worse.

Um, it might have been worth noting why exactly a reporter was at this funeral. Kind of like commenting on a hurricane and not mentioning the weather.

A child was killed in car accident, and buried by grieving family and friends.

WAS THIS NEWS?

Why should we sit up and take notice of media when anything and everything is fair game for reporting? Think about: NEWSFLASH — somebody else died today in another car accident; we’ll have live coverage of the autopsy and the announcement of the death to the family, followed with blow-by-blow coverage of the funeral preparations and the funeral itself.

This is the nature of our lives, but it’s not news for that reason.

Would this have been received differently had the reporter covered the funeral with live video? I don’t think so; it still wouldn’t be news, only ghoulishness indulged.

Apparently Americans no longer ask themselves if what the media provides them is NEWS; it only has to be attention-getting infotainment.

The other problem with the coverage of this funeral by Rocky Mountain News is that the reporter became the story. That should not happen to a respectable, ethical journalist in the course of covering a story. Why is no one concerned about this? Do we not care at all what ethics should be employed by professional journalists? How do we get the truth from other real news if the reporter gets in the way of that truth?