Reader comments: Key Bank tower comes down
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WC | 7:31 a.m. Aug. 18, 2007
It was Awesome!
Ryan | 7:40 a.m. Aug. 18, 2007
I'm sure there will soon be some video online of the demolition, but in the meanwhile here's a video I uploaded to YouTube: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg5sAVEEEzI)
Paul | 7:43 a.m. Aug. 18, 2007
This was hardly a skyscraper, try an office building! Guess the author has never been to a city larger than SLC. See the world man!
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Hyrum | 8:23 a.m. Aug. 18, 2007
Nelson, a 31 year old employee, was pregnant in 1980? Did I miss something in the report? If she's currently 31, then she wasn't even alive in 1980. If she was pregnant in 1980, then she's not 31 now. Anyone else notice that? Maybe if I reread it it will make more sense....
Hyrum | 8:25 a.m. Aug. 18, 2007
Yep. I reread it. A 31 year-employee...not a 31 year-old employee. Haste makes waste...
Lily | 8:37 a.m. Aug. 18, 2007
Wow. That was hard to watch. It just looked so much like The Towers. Anyway, it's amazing that we can manage somthing so intricate as that. Really amazing.
Stenar | 8:54 a.m. Aug. 18, 2007
When the term skyscraper first came into use, they used it to describe buildings less than 10 stories, so technically they could call this building a skyscraper even though it's not as tall as the lofty towers in NYC and elsewhere.
Most Impressive | 9:59 a.m. Aug. 18, 2007
Awesome video. Nice work getting that on the website! I heard about this from a friend, and it's cool to see all way cross-country! Excellent!
Take Three | 10:40 a.m. Aug. 18, 2007
This was a skyscraper, and an office building! Guess Paul has never been to a city smaller than SLC. Thanks for seeing the world man!
California Reader | 11:35 a.m. Aug. 18, 2007
Hey Deseret News, It's really unfortunate that you find it necessary to take the name of God in vain in this article. Even if it is a quote, it's unnecessary. It disturbs me that the newspaper owned by my own church chooses to print those kinds of words. You guys are unique, or at least you should be. Please stand up for clean speech. Please do not use the pages of the Deseret News to print profanity.
Anonymous | 11:51 a.m. Aug. 18, 2007
As soon as I saw the photo of the building collapsing (previously seen on tv) my immediate thought went to the instability of the mine shaft.
NICK | 12:32 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007
To Hyrum aka "Haste Makes Waste"
If you happened to do the math correctly in your first comment you would ind that had the Key Bank employee been only 31 years old, she would have been alive in 1980, theoretically age 4. 2007-31=1976. 2007-1980=27.
Lets hear it for reading correctly and being mathematically proficient!
If you happened to do the math correctly in your first comment you would ind that had the Key Bank employee been only 31 years old, she would have been alive in 1980, theoretically age 4. 2007-31=1976. 2007-1980=27.
Lets hear it for reading correctly and being mathematically proficient!
Lindsay | 1:09 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007
I agree with the California Reader. Using profanity in any newspaper is poor taste.
Look | 1:29 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007
Look, the newspaper is to report what happens including what people say, which some of you deem profane.
Tom | 1:50 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007
Quoting a person precisely as they said something is not in poor taste for any journalistic publication. To change the quote to reflect otherwise, or to simply not use it, is censorship and shouldn't be tolerated by anyone, regardless of who owns the newspaper. If something is an offensive to you, don't say it. But please don't expect others to conform to your overly restrictive standards.
Censored | 2:58 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007
Wow, it appears the paper censored the original story and removed the part about the 31 year Key Bank employee saying "Oh my God!!" three times as the building collapsed.
What a pity.
What a pity.
Sam | 3:09 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007
Hey they can do whatever they want to with the paper including removing profanities. Taking the Lord's name in vain is the worst kind there is.
Original | 3:29 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007
Here is the original uncensored paragraph from Doug's original report:
"It's bittersweet," said Julie Nelson, a 31-year employee of Key Bank watching from the new Key Bank tower, a block to the east, the only words she could find as the building toppled was three progressively louder shrieks of, "Oh, my God!"
"It's bittersweet," said Julie Nelson, a 31-year employee of Key Bank watching from the new Key Bank tower, a block to the east, the only words she could find as the building toppled was three progressively louder shrieks of, "Oh, my God!"
To Sam | 3:45 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007
According to LDS theology, the woman did not take the Lord's name in vain. She said God, not Jesus.
Jamie | 3:50 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007
Why are all of Deseretnews.com's pictures so painfully low-res?
Matt | 4:19 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007
Hmmm... Looks like the Mormon church censors another one.......
It would be nice if mormons didn't think that the rest of the world should share their provincial views.
What a bunch of simpletons.
It would be nice if mormons didn't think that the rest of the world should share their provincial views.
What a bunch of simpletons.
Kelsey | 4:23 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007
Hey Sam, maybe you should recheck what LDS theology says about saying God. It's still taking the Lord's name in vain.
jerry | 4:32 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007
Speaking of getting the facts straight .... better write this down for the next time a building is imploded in SLC. Since dropping the Hotel Newhouse, Controlled Demolition has also imploded the Medical Arts Building (that's where the Eagle Gate Plaza, commonly known as the 'Coppertop' Building resides) as well as the large stack in Murray, just off 53rd, where the new IHC hospital is under construction.
Dear Matt | 4:32 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007
Have you ever been to Mexico? In some places 98% of the population is Catholic. And you think Utah makes the rest of the world share their provincial views? If you don't like it, you can always live somewhere else.
Rob | 4:37 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007
Jamie, maybe they are low-res because it was so dusty so they used not so good cameras. Just an idea.
DN Reader | 4:51 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007
I remember when they constructed that building. I must be getting old!
Great video!
Great video!
august miller | 5:55 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007
On the low resolution photos. they are small because we are in a two-phase process of upgrading and re-designing our website to better serve our readers. Soon these photos will appear much larger so you can see them better.
Matt | 6:08 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007
I was unaware that Catholics in Mexico regularly censor "news" that the Roman Catholic church publishes in the "newspaper" that Jesus owns. Apparently they do. I am very sorry for my ignorance....and I apologize for the frivolity. P.S. I do live elsewhere and am nothing more than a curious outsider to your organization.
Jamie | 9:27 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007
august,
That is good to hear
That is good to hear
Anonymous | 1:37 a.m. Aug. 19, 2007
Conservative Mormons scream and yell about how the liberal media only reports certain aspects of stories and not the whole truth. Yet when the Des News reports what a woman actually said, the conservative Mormons want it censored. Amazing.
Maggie | 1:42 a.m. Aug. 19, 2007
Was she standing on the sidewalk near temple square when she uttered such vulgarity? If so they should of poked her with a stick until she was far enough away that Moroni blowing his horn could not hear such awful utterings.
Kyle | 1:56 a.m. Aug. 19, 2007
I wonder how much asbestos was in the air that morning. Who would you send the bill to?
Kurt | 2:12 a.m. Aug. 19, 2007
So many of you give away your age and immaturity when you get hung up on trivial points of a story and tit-for-tat sarcasm between readers. The story is the issue not your "feelings".
Dustin | 2:56 a.m. Aug. 20, 2007
I'm sorry I was not able to be there and see the implosion live . I wish I had, as I did see the Stardust implosion in Las Vegas in March. It was amazing!
Uh..... | 1:00 p.m. Aug. 20, 2007
After reading all of your comments, I'm lost. I thought the story was about leveling a building???
Skeptic | 1:41 a.m. Aug. 21, 2007
A reporter's job isn't to quote every single thing every single person said. His job is to act as a filter for the reader and get representative quotes of those at the scene OR get exact quotes from experts or significant persons. Quoting everything would make news stories endlessly long and boring and nobody would read them. The writer's job it to choose the best bits.
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