On Friday, May 10, 2024, I participated in an announcement on Mark the Sarcastic Law Student’s YouTube channel with two of my fellow cast members of the Welsh News Network to say that we’re stepping away from WNN at this time.
Others on the panel may make their own statements when they are comfortable making statements. Becca put out her own brief statement before Mark’s show last night and Hank (who was finally getting some rest after almost 9 hours of being on the air yesterday for the Karen Read murder trial) may share his thoughts when he is comfortable.
There is a lot of hurt, a lot of confusion and a lot of unknowns right now and we’re all processing the whirlwind events of the past week in our own ways.
Dan himself put out a statement on Thursday denying the accusations by Irish Demon and has indicated that he will say nothing further on the advice of authorities after a doxing incident in WNN chat Wednesday night. That is his decision.
WNN had already been on hiatus until next week due to Dan’s travel plans and while we’ve been providing daily coverage of the Karen Read Murder trial. That coverage is the work of Hank, myself and Pope Phil, and is not tied to the Welsh News Network other than Dan has been graciously providing us with his platform and assets to use during our coverage.
Effective immediately, that coverage is moving to https://www.youtube.com/@ReallyCoolSite and we will be providing live coverage of the trial starting at 9AM on Monday, May 13, 2024. I will also be reading the news tomorrow night at 8PM ET on the channel in a dry run of future programming.
Moving our show away from WNN’s platform is risky proposition, but frankly, we have committed to providing coverage of the Karen Read murder trial and we’re sticking with that coverage in a neutral zone away from the chaos that is engulfing WNN right now.
As for myself, I have been hosting with Hank and Phil for 6-9 hours a day, five days a week and then doing the WNN evening show for 3-5 hours a night for the past two weeks. I’ve also been keeping up with the paper and I have not had time to process everything that has happened. I’m exhausted.
I am not comfortable with staying in a place where I cannot provide answers to your questions. I do not have those answers for you, and it became increasingly apparent during our Friday broadcast that continuing on the WNN platform would be more of a distraction to our goal of reporting on the trial than any benefit using assets of the larger network may provide.
As for Irish Demon’s coverage, I have not had time to watch it. I have talked to Demon, and I have seen his evidence directly. I have talked to Dan, and I have heard his side of the stories. I have talked to my castmates, and I have talked to a lot of our fans over the last 72 hours. The truth will present itself as a mix of all of those sources, I’m sure, but that story is not mine to tell.
I am a biased participant, and I will not present my opinions as news. I’m part of this story folks, like it or not, and it violates all sorts of ethical lines as a reporter if I were to be reporting on events that I am a part of.
Again, I won’t stand in the way of the story, though, and I will confirm what I can confirm or deny what I can deny as truthfully as I can.
These accusations are serious, and you deserve answers. There’s a lot of hurt going around, and my advice will be to keep your mind open, one way or another, and make it up after taking in all that is out there.
https://www.youtube.com/@ReallyCoolSite
This publication will continue, and I have 72 hours’ worth of news to catch up on. I’ll probably be doing articles all day on Saturday and Sunday to get things caught up and then I will be going live on my personal YouTube channel on Sunday to read portions of the news in a dry run. Please join me, it will probably be hilarious as I’m learning the platform.
Things are not okay.
This is not business as usual.
I will do my best to make things right.
That’s all I can do.
Jim
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HI
As you know, I am a long time reader and commenter so this is not a troll.
The date says March 10? typo due to being tired?
What scandal or chaos do you speak of. I do not watch, other places like WNN or irish demon. So, I respect your decision if you do not want to mention what is going on, being too close, but I would encourage you to write a report and said events. I know you think you might be biased and thus unable to do the story in a just unbiased and fair manner, but I assure you, as a long time reader, I trust your voice over near anyone else in the community. So, please put pen to paper, mark it with any caveat you might have and publish it. Just so the clueless amongst us, that would be me, can understand the story!
Typo fixed, thank you. It has been a whirlwind since the news broke and I’m obviously in shock as I’m still making typos as I type to you. My policy has always been to be hands off and let someone else report on me or situations I may be involved in. It’s just my policy, I’m not expecting anyone to understand it, but in my perspective I wouldn’t trust the guy the story is about to write about the story the guy is in. “Jim says Jim is not guilty of murder in the paper run by Jim” for example, might make for good tabloid fodder, but as a reader, I wouldn’t trust the report. We have purposely avoided stories in the past where this a conflict or put up a disclaimer of our bias at the end of the article. For the WNN stuff, there’s too much to the story for me to tell and tell without a bias. My entire life has been uprooted and my support system has been gone. I have had about 8 hours of sleep over three days and I cannot do that story justice at this time. I’m having problems writing a simple turtleboy story right now. Until I can process things, I shouldn’t be the person you’re looking to for accurate reporting. I’m a mess.
Take care. Eventually everything works itself out. I enjoy your work and respect you’re decision.