Something to ponder

[midnitewriter]

Read this story and then take the poll at the end... I'm just curious on your thoughts on this:

From The Virginian-Pilot Online. Thursday, November 13, 2003.

Teenager convicted of Macing TV reporter Andy Fox
By Amy Jeter, The Virginian-PilotPORTSMOUTH - The video began with a familiar image to viewers of WAVY News 10: people covering their faces

Comments

[batmoon]

WTF is uttering?

[midnitewriter]

I was wondering that myself LOL

[baj]

im surprised everyone decided the reporters action were inappropriate
in context the reporter was acting within their legal right to do their job

everybody hates the media- thats a fact

[midnitewriter]

Very true! However, I think that sometimes the media goes way beyond reporting and gets too invasive.

[vergence]

Well I look at it this way. The reporter was being invasive in a bad area of town with some bad people. The more I think about it the more I'd be in favor of macing someone-- but sadly it is not self defense. There is no reason to expect that you can just go chasing after someone without consequence. He totally got what he deserved.

[kurisu926]

Let me tell you one thing -

I've been accidentally in contact with mace five or six times in my life, and that's in a close and distant proximity. It's not that bad, really. Fuck that reporter and his dodgy style.

Furthermore, we all know prostituition exists, I don't know what he was trying to prove..was he trying to get some old women to gasp or something? Lame.

<3

[midnitewriter]

Word.

[kubrickfan]

Unfortunately, while I dislike things like this, these people were in a public space. There are no laws saying that we have the right not to photographed or videotaped in a public setting.

[midnitewriter]

Very true. Honestly though, if someone was coming after me in that fashion and proceeded to follow me after I had fled, I would confront and if they were persistent, I might have done something to this degree.