Bad Mouthing the Victim

BILL LAMBERT

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Sunday, December 2. 2007

Too bad on you if there's a little dirt in your closet and you happen to be murdered. The Media would no doubt pile on the 'speculation', as happened with Emily Sanders and Sean Taylor, as if the tragic loss of these young people somehow is deserved or inevitable, based on "who they were".

News outlets must think it's good business: gets more click-throughs, sells more newspapers or keeps little fingers off the remote. When Emily Sanders first went missing, the headlines read, 'High School Student Missing'. Shortly after, news came out that she was a semi-regular on some bush-league internet porn site. All of of sudden, she becomes a MISSING PORN STAR.

Linda Lovelace, she ain't... Emily wasn't famous, even to porn experts, and believe me, I checked. They might as well have used the headline, 'LITTLE SLUT GETS WHAT SHE DESERVES', for God's sake.

Here's the rub... police say Emily's budding porn career had nothing to do with her murder. They have a suspect, someone she left a bar with on the night she died. CNN even reported that, according to the local Chief of Police, all the porn talk was causing false leads and a media crush and was hampering the investigation.

It was nice to include that in their story, however, it didn't make them change their headlines.

Why is the media trying to imply that the little slut Emily Sanders and the bad-ass black man Sean Taylor got what they deserved?

Sean Taylor, who millions watched every Sunday collide with behemoths for millions a year, all of a sudden, 'had a past', was 'turning his life around', and all the other code-words they use to paint some brother as bad news.

This was no strip club shooting or nightclub jealousy. Sometimes people kill people just for their money, and that appears to be the case in the shooting of Sean Taylor. He was in bed asleep with his fiancee and baby girl, for God's sake.

Shame on you media guys... can't you at least wait until after the funeral?

Posted by Bill Lambert in Media Fool at 18:22 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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