Monday, October 8, 2007

In regards to our last class session where the media coverage on the three different female victims who were killed during the fall 2007 semester, I found myself very much on the side of the NT Daily journalist who was in charge of such coverage. He understood the responsibility for meeting a deadline with reasonable and creditable sources without sacrificing the impression of the newspaper by quitting so abruptly. I think that a good number of the people in class believed that the media coverage was not evenly distributed among the three girls not present. The fact that the media published very vivid details regarding how they (the victims') were thought to be dangerous drug dealers caught between jealousy and a lesbian relationship was incredibly damaging and hurtful for the family's of the ones who died.

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