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Sex Offender Hysteria |
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The Lunsford child |
| Date Posted: |
05/04/2005 |
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Ever since the Jessica Lunsford murder, we're constantly reporting sex offender stories (My station is in FL.) And now that Gov. Bush has signed the Jessica Lunsford act, it's gotten worse! We've actually plucked names from the Sex Offender Registry and confronted neighbors, just for the sake of outing these convicts. I guess I just don't think it's all that newsworthy. I mean, these guys have done their time and registered as required by law, so what's the point in rehashing the crimes? We don't do the same thing to other criminals. What do you think? Is it news?
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was abducted, raped, killed during all the mindless hoopla over the already-dead Teri Schiavo. Got scarcely a mention then.
Took another child murder and previously convicted sex offender to register on the collective journalistic
"brain".
I've worked as a reporter quite a few years now, and have covered several cases of kids raped/murdered by pedophile sex offenders who had already been tagged by the system. Convicted, imprisoned, released.
As a grizzzled old cop once told me, they're model prisoners cause ain't no seven-year old boys in prison.
So they're released on Good Behavior.
Little Lunsford's death was a story about The System really truly failing. Teri Schiavo was not.
Makes me wonder who's running the "news" shop. People with no children? Crazed, robotic workaholics who can't distinguish a real news story from whatever the herd is chasing?
Yes and yes, I suspect.
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