Friday, January 25, 2008

Where Have You Gone, Carl Monday?

Posted by Joe Tone on Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 8:02 AM

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Has Carl gone soft? Will Cleveland survive?
What’s happened to Carl Monday lately? The “Dean of Cleveland Investigative Reporters” has made a career out of a trenchcoat, a microphone wielded like a baton, and the ingratiating persistence of a frantic chihuahua. His specialty: turning petty stupidity or lewdness — like, say, cranking it in a library -- into high crime. All in a day’s work for the grand master of sensationalism. But one look at Monday’s recent workload suggests that Monday’s going soft. His last two stories have involved a lawsuit filed against the Cleveland Clinic, by a fired doctor who's crying discrimination. (He's Indian, you see; everyone knows hospitals never hire Indian doctors). Now Carl Monday in a hospital obviously has endless promise; the combination immediately conjures images of him barging into a maternity ward, demanding too see midwives’ birthing licenses, and somehow getting briefly strangled by an umbilical cord as he interrogates a baby. But no, in these two stories, Monday is studying paperwork and conducting interviews. And these aren’t the type of interviews that end with a masturbator’s dad slamming his fist against Monday’s car, yelling, “I’m a vet, goddamnit!” These are actually interviews, with questions, and then answers. It’s like watching Barry Bonds bunt. Christ, Monday’s not even wearing a trench coat. We lost a half-day's work, a full two hours, mourning Monday's demise. But then we realized we still have his back catalog to help us remember the good old days, when the guy was completely shameless. Like November. That’s when Monday trained his beady eyes on a Mayfield school bus yard and went to work . He costs an elderly driver his job for using a walker. He harries another driver, an old woman with, well, a slightly oversized derriere, about how she can mobilize to save kids in an emergency. (To which she replies, “I’d evacuate them just fine!”) And he gets chased from school grounds by an incensed principal. Carl, have you seen the state of our city since you went un-sensationalist? Harmless Clevelanders are going about their daily lives, unharassed. Please. We need you back. -- Gus Garcia-Roberts

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I've admired Carl Monday's work so I was hoping I could interest him in taking a look into the inhumane activities of the family court system in Stark County, Ohio. The rights of our family were violated from start to finish. My daughter wasn't offered an attorney. They claim they sent us mail but we never received it. They secretly plotted to take permanent custody without prior notice to the family. I haven't seen my grandchildren in 2 years. Neither has anyone else in the family. I've tried everything but they will not allow us to speak. The children have been deprived of their right to pursue happiness.We're all destroyed. And we do not deserve it. No abuse was alleged. I'm sure that we could have won the case if we'd been given the chance to fight, but we never were.

Posted by Joyce Elifritz on February 2, 2008 at 8:47 PM | Report this comment
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On 1/23/08, I thought I had the perfect case for "Action 19..everywhere. At 7:30 P.M. on 1/22/08, I was driving on Snow Rd. near the airport, headed out for dinner. Destination was the Canary restuarant on Puritas. I turned north on Rt.237, stopped at the red light atop the hill by the airport entranceway. On green, accelerated to gain the 50 MPH merge speed at the bottom. Just as I got through the underpass, near the 5 or 6 lane merge, I spotted an object 15 feet ahead across my lane. With no where to go, except to hit another adjacent car or go out of control to avoid it, I had to hit it. It was 8 in. high, by 5 ft. wide, and 5 ft. deep across the lane. Turned out to be 2 massive stake sides off of a heavy duty landscape truck, ratchet strapped together, that had fell off a truck and landed on top of each other. It shredded everything off my car below the bumper - $3000. damage. I immediately called Brook Park police to apprise them about the object's need for urgent removal. A squad car was in route, as they had previous call or calls. There was also some "jurisdictional" questions. As busy as that area is, someone HAD to see the truck lose this load. This seemed to me to be an ideal public service opportunity for the media, the goal of which, besides my own aims, to let such scofflaws know they can't get away with such irresponsible actions. I and others could easily have been killed. The call screener at "19" said it's not the kind of story they would do, "Why she stammered, if we ran that, every one in an accident would call in." Translation: not sensational enough. I also called Carl's number a couple of times - got no response. He was doubtless busy skulking around the court house restrooms, or perhaps...do they have a law library down at the courthouse ? (-; As well, one must consider that there was no "carnal" elements to the story, as would be requisite for Carl's attention. (-; To be fair, I called channel 5 as well. Result...they WERE NOT "On my side." So much for public service....

Posted by Dave Newhouse on February 13, 2008 at 1:50 PM | Report this comment
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Has anyone heard about the tv show that "Bad Boy" John Albrecht is doing? I heard that Carl is doing a story about it.

Posted by Salli Brisbane on May 15, 2008 at 6:02 PM | Report this comment

The City of Cleveland apparently went in bed with big business and circumvented the constitutional due process for the residents on East 63rd street in 1997. As the result, most homeowners were driven out of the area, some just abandoned their properties, and the remaining ones are being terrorized with a forced sleep deprivation at night in their own homes.

http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/welcom…

Carl Monday was asked to cover the story. He never even responded. The same goes for Scott Taylor, and some other so-called “investigators.” Welcome to Cleveland, where dirty dishes seem to be more important than human lives.

Posted by gseweb on December 21, 2009 at 10:01 AM | Report this comment

my name is landa. I live here in canton ohio. I have 2 kids in foster care. I called the news many time to get my story told. I never got a call from none of the news. Im not calling the news no more. we have to all come together. cps & family court is all about lies & money. cps has to be stop. we need a organization here in ohio. we have to wake up & all come together to fight for all of our kids. my 2 kids is still in foster care suffering. my case worker she lie way too much. I would like for anyone to send me a e-mail. kindnessohio33@yahoo.com we have to end the power of cps. Im fighting for my here in stark county ohio. keep on fighting cps.

Posted by kindness on February 8, 2010 at 1:34 PM | Report this comment

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