This sort of event is entirely unacceptable in our society; however, I don't really know that the people who are being raged at are entirely the appropriate ones. This is a product of the anger and evils of two people (and arguably the upbringing/society that brought their evils about). This does not make any of this the fault of the media or law makers. Anti-hate-crime legislation is problematic on a number of levels, not the least of which is morally questionable act of calling a murder for socio/political reasons a worse crime than a murder for other non-self-defense related reasons (I'm not quite clear how murdering someone because they are gay is worse than murdering them because they are a republican or some such). And as for the media, I will make the same comment I always do as someone with a degree in this sorta thing....the media reports what their publics want to hear and won't be angry at them for. An institution like the Herald Times could suffer severely for a story on this that sounded even slightly amiss. While there is this expectation for journalists to be public servants, neither the government nor the people provide them with real funding to be selfless and our laws do not really protect them anymore than they do normal folks. It is more accurate to blame a populace that couldn't handle the sort of impact printing this would have in a rationale way and a pair of sinister men who are really the true villains in this tragedy.
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Date: 2007-06-22 01:26 am (UTC)This sort of event is entirely unacceptable in our society; however, I don't really know that the people who are being raged at are entirely the appropriate ones. This is a product of the anger and evils of two people (and arguably the upbringing/society that brought their evils about). This does not make any of this the fault of the media or law makers. Anti-hate-crime legislation is problematic on a number of levels, not the least of which is morally questionable act of calling a murder for socio/political reasons a worse crime than a murder for other non-self-defense related reasons (I'm not quite clear how murdering someone because they are gay is worse than murdering them because they are a republican or some such). And as for the media, I will make the same comment I always do as someone with a degree in this sorta thing....the media reports what their publics want to hear and won't be angry at them for. An institution like the Herald Times could suffer severely for a story on this that sounded even slightly amiss. While there is this expectation for journalists to be public servants, neither the government nor the people provide them with real funding to be selfless and our laws do not really protect them anymore than they do normal folks. It is more accurate to blame a populace that couldn't handle the sort of impact printing this would have in a rationale way and a pair of sinister men who are really the true villains in this tragedy.