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YouTube snippet sidelines city cop

April 16th, 2009 joel

Warning: your next rant in a drunken stupor could make you infamous on YouTube.

Spring-breaking college seniors know something that an Erie policeman obviously didn’t: your outrageous public behavior when caught on video can be an extreme detriment to your employment prospects. The front-page lead in this morning’s Erie Times News by Kara Murphy and Ed Palattella reports about a nearly eight minute long video that has surfaced on YouTube, showing Erie Patrolman James Cousins II, “holding forth in a Girard bar as he makes fun of people he has encountered on the job.”
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The Feed for Friday, October 24th

October 24th, 2008 joel

Editor’s note: Sound off, give a shout out on “Deep Background,” our totally-random open discussion of all things Erie media.

  • GoErie scores with Joyce trial posts: it may not be the OJ trial, but the mail fraud and money laundering case against former state Superior Court Judge Michael Joyce has many of the elements of an engaging trial. That plays right to the strengths of the new media, and GoErie.com is staying in the game with periodic posts as the trial unfolds. Erie Times News reporter Lisa Thompson is in Pittsburgh, giving the reader excellent coverage of the testimony in near real time on GoErie and a thorough retelling for the morning paper. (more…)
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