BadComrade wrote:Can you believe this asshole? He thinks that I was "offended" in reading that she was a stripper?! What a tool. He doesn't seem to have noticed that I was offended that he chose to make her the point of interest. I love when he says "... clearly, a criminal courts reporter whose focus is crime and the criminal mind can never adequately give them the coverage their lives deserve."
In-fucking-credible response, no? Who knew you needed a background in criminal behavior to tell the public things like "...she even went in to the Admiral Theatre and spoke with a dancer there about how much she loved being a stripper and how much she loved the money".
I don't even think I'm going to bother replying to his response...
i might be way off here, or missing something crucial, but i think you should not reply to his response. because it seems like he made it clear that he was told to write an article that was a profile of the criminal involved in this court case. it seems like he made that clear, but you still haven't digested it, seeing as you still say "he chose to make her the point of interest". didn't he make it clear that he wrote the article he was told to write?
trying to look at the situation from a perspective outside of the very focused narrow perspective of someone who was friends with one or more of the guys, is this article really astounding? i think it's sad but true, people are more concerned with knowing about what sort of person does something like this than they are about knowing about the victims. it's different, but similar, to how there are documentaries about serial killers, but not about their victims. i think this stems from some combination of a dark fascination and a geniune fear and desire for avoidance of terrible terrible people.
on top of that, she's not presented as a great person or anything remotely of the sort. the article seems to paint an accurate picture, or it seems reasonable anyway. she grew up with hardworking parents who, like many new americans, kept her from assimilating as much as she might have liked. i've seen this firsthand with friends in highschool. both of my close japanese friends were first generation and were under tremendous pressure from their parents to be more japanese than american. both had serious psychological issues.
she certainly became a stripper, and she may have been into drugs... these are not endearing qualities to most people. this article paints a picture of her as being fucked up, and maybe not a good person all-around. she was attention-starved. she taunted a dog. the guy is basically saying, without saying, that she's a piece of shit.
i understand being mad that she's getting any attention at all. and i can understand being mad that she's getting more attention than the guys. but why dump shit on the guy who wrote the article? it doesn't speak badly of them, it does speak badly of her, and assuming we can take the author on his word, he was writing the article he was assigned to write. considering he was told to write an article about her, it seems like he managed to work in quite a bit about the guys. considering.
complain to the content editor, or other people whose email addresses have been given out on this thread, absolutely, if you're so compelled. but really, what did the author of the article himself do wrong?