Major news outlets usually don't publicize the names of rape victims. However, every major news network keeps showing the names of those three women in Cleveland who were rescued. Hell, I just saw one of them on CNN going home covering her face like she was doing a perp walk. WTF? can't they take a hint? The media should just leave them alone. Those girls didn't ask for this.
Granny says dem media oughta leave `em alone to readjust to dey's families... Cleveland kidnap: Dealing with media spotlight 9 May 2013 - In late August and early September 2006, the atmosphere among much of the Austrian and foreign press in Vienna was tense and febrile.
It's b/c of the circumstances - a 10 yr long ordeal of kidnapping and horrific abuse, 3 women who had disappeared into thin air and family never knowing what happened to them. No, these innocent women certainly didn't ask for this publicity, but I'm sure they'd rather have to deal w/this than still be locked up and chained in that house..... Then there's the publicity of the trial that'll be coming up that they will have to endure..... obviously they're tough gals - they'll survive it.
What happened went far beyond rape and the fact that they were there so long and survived is big news. I would bet they will all make BIG bucks when the book comes out, and there will be several on the topic.
There are very few news stories that the media does need pictures to present. However these girls have been posing in photos for the media. They are not being treated like anonymous rape victims because they have made their identities and characterisation public, as have other rape victims that decided to come forward publicly instead of remaining anonymous.
Have they really? Remember that just because posed pictures appear in the media doesn't mean they were posed for the media. It's also possible they've been advised to give the media some posed pictures because the hacks will get them one way or another regardless and it might reduce the invasions of privacy just a little. That's harsh. Their names and older pictures are public because of the attempts by their families to track them down when they went missing. They didn't get a choice over their identities being published immediately after they were freed - they were still in hospital at that point. I actually think that in this case it would be impractical to expect the media not to use their names (though I question naming the daughter who was conceived during their imprisonment). As always though, the general media scrum to get any pictures, video and information about a case like this has been over-the-top and is clearly putting making a saleable story much higher than the wellbeing of anyone involved.
YES. I don't now why this has to be repeated to you. http://i.livescience.com/images/i/000/039/939/iFF/amanda-berry-130507.jpg?1368054016 http://www.leaderpost.com/cms/binary/8355220.jpg?size=620x400s They were posing for photos IN the hospital. The media is posting information that's been available to them from public figures that have voluntarily given out that information in a national case. Your entire argument is based on absolutely nothing.
There's no need to get angry, I was asking an honest question I didn't know the answer to. I'm not in the US and don't obsess over such situations. Your statement didn't click with what I had seen and what I know of the "news" media (some first hand) though, hence the question. Sure, but as I said, was that posed for the media or was it a private picture "obtained" by the media? The implication I took from your posts was that these women were somehow wilfully putting themselves out there in the media and were thus responsible for the hacks and paparazzi mobbing them at every opportunity. My argument for that impression being harsh is based on what's been posted here and my personal opinion.
The decision was never really made. The initial escapee was named and then her co-victims, and then it sunk it what their lives must have been like during their captivity. By then their identities were in the public domain.
Sylvia Brown the celebrity psychic appeared on Montel Willams and told Amanda Berry's dying mother that the girl was dead.
