HERALD CROSSES THE LINE WITH STALLWORTH VIDEO

We realize that the newspaper business is struggling. But we didn’t realize that one of the plans for salvaging the industry involved reprising the 80s-era Faces of Death series. The Miami Herald has posted at its web site video of the aftermath of Saturday’s collision involving Donte’ Stallworth’s Bentley and 59-year-old Mario Reyes. The video -- which appears with a disclaimer that the images are graphic -- includes shots of emergency workers attempting to revive Mr. Reyes, who would later die. The video also shows Stallworth, standing on the sidewalk as police shine a light into his eyes as part of a field sobriety test. The video doesn’t really show much of anything worth much of anything. So why in the hell did they post it? If this is how the old media plans to compete with the new media, the old media will be gone sooner than anyone ever realized. And no one will really miss it. The only new information of note in the latest article is that a witness claims that the incident occurred after Stallworth tried to beat a red light by going around a vehicle that already had stopped at the light. If that’s the case, Stallworth might be in big trouble even if his blood alcohol content was below the legal limit.