SIGNAL BOOSTING EVERYWHERE

[devilgrrl]

Originally posted by closetospring at SIGNAL BOOSTING EVERYWHERE
so, the new york times covered a story in which an 11-year-old girl was gang raped (POSSIBLE TRIGGER WARNING for the link). an awful story, made even more awful by the fact that they repeated claims that she brought it on herself by the way she was dressed. repeated them. as fact. no critical

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[teawithfrodo]

I'm personally not seeing where the NYT blamed the girl for what happened.

They were covering the story and showing how the people of that area look at rape and blame the victim.
THAT is how news is supposed to be done. They were impartial and objective and gave the info of the story. Those are the quotes from people.

[teawithfrodo]

I was thinking the same thing.
As someone who studied journalism I think if the person had put in their personal opinion it would have taken away from the article.

What the writer was showing was that society was blaming her. I think the article made the people in the area look pretty horrible. But it's not the writer's job to put their personal opinion in the article. People complain they want objective news until there is information they don't like.

All that being said...that poor girl. What a disturbing situation. Maybe people need to be angry at the area that allowed this to happen instead of at the newspaper that reported it.

[sistrmoon]

This is the quote that kind of makes me go "buh."

“It’s just destroyed our community,” said Sheila Harrison, 48, a hospital worker who says she knows several of the defendants. “These boys have to live with this the rest of their lives.”

But the article seems balanced to me. It's the people in the community that aren't.

[lassie_faire]

I signed the petition.

And for those above who don't see how they blamed the girl--here's a nice link:

http://feministing.com/2011/03/11/chloe-and-lori-ride-bolt-bus-talk-victim-blaming/#more-30999

[great_dame]

I wondered if you would like trying to be friends. I'm looking for new people to read about on occasion.

[devilgrrl]

Sure :) I don't post that much these days, but you're more than welcome to check out any of the other places I'm at, too.