Interesting vocab for a wordsmith to label my comment / question to True Run as "inappropriate." Sorry, Mr. Schwankert, I am a proponent of transparency and I won't allow your opinion to serve as an excuse to skirt the issue pointed out from (part of) my comment: what is True Run's policy on transparency?
You can go about this one of two ways:
-remove my post AND call me out, leaving readers to wonder what horrific thing I must have spewed out onto your website. ([Checkmark]...you have sucessfully done this but there's still time to right your ways)
OR
-re-read my comment and see that I've said I would LOVE to have this lady at a pool where my child might be swimming one day in the future and she should be commended and praised and I hope the girl turned out OK. But that also True Run's transparency policy seems either lacking or is employed inconsistently (or a combo of the two). Remember my comment, which you have deemed 'inappropriate', was also attempting to ascertain why your relationship with an organization that is NOT the subject of this article is mentioned in the authors' comments at the end, but not for articles which are actually SOLELY about a company in which your employer has deep ties to (as seen here: http://www.thebeijinger.com/blog/2014/07/20/revamped-gung-ho-space-china-view-coming-mid-august )
If the policy is not to mention any relationship True Run Media and its employees may have with the contents of the article, then so be it, and do so without prejudice. But that doesn't seem to be your team's M.O. It seems to be deployed here and there but that doesn't equal everywhere. I think it's great you have something on the side which serves to raise awareness and technical abilities of persons in the community over an issue which you have an interest in. But as you have said as much in your comment to me, the article was about a herioic action and not a rundown of where one can emergency response traiing in Beijing. Thus when combined with the lack of transparency seen in other articles, I as a reader raised a flag, hoping my curiousity would be satiated to the betterment of us all.
I am not saying a big shot with TRM can't also work for a pizza company or you can't give a shout out to EFR. However, when transparency is applied consistently I think that serves the reader and community best. Otherwise it can cause the reader to question. Wouldn't you agree?
Finally, I would argue that ALL public safety issues are important -- not just the ones mentioned in this particular story.