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dreamer_easy ([personal profile] dreamer_easy) wrote2009-08-10 10:30 am

What's wrong with this picture?

From AOL UK News:



I'm still looking for a contact email / feedback form / whatever for AOL News. (Also curious about journalism rules in the UK.) Background to the nightmare is available from Media Watch.

[identity profile] alryssa.livejournal.com 2009-08-10 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
Being the victim of rape is something one has to confess about or admit to?

What. The. Fuck.

[identity profile] southerndave.livejournal.com 2009-08-10 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
It's worse than that.

As reported locally (the scandal has jumped the Tasman too) the girl's mother (I think) already knew what had happened. The show's hosts did show appalling judgement in letting it go to air though... even for not just stopping the recording then and there and going straight to the Police, I reckon.

[identity profile] alryssa.livejournal.com 2009-08-10 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Horrible. Just horrible. God.

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[identity profile] kitzen-kat.livejournal.com 2009-08-10 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
Holy crap. For the love of a comma or parentheses.

[identity profile] murasaki-1966.livejournal.com 2009-08-10 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
The SMH did it too. Every story about that atrocity had the smug bastard's photo on it....

Media Watch whould be interesting tonight.
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[personal profile] hnpcc 2009-08-11 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
Media Watch covered this story last week - it's worth looking up online for the sheer enjoyment they got out of putting the boot (very tastefully) into Kyle Sandilands.

[identity profile] thedorkygirl.livejournal.com 2009-08-10 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
i heard about this on twitter a while back, but give me the background on why you're upset right now with the picture??

[identity profile] kateorman.livejournal.com 2009-08-10 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
The way AOL's headline puts it, you'd think the child was the criminal, not the rapist! She "confesses" and "admits" to being sexually assaulted? Grrr.

[identity profile] thedorkygirl.livejournal.com 2009-08-10 07:58 am (UTC)(link)
It can also be taken like interrogation, pressure, duress. Those are words that are generally linked to the criminal element, yes, but it makes you question wtf a fourteen-year-old girl was doing live on radio being questioned about her sexual past by a couple of shock jocks.
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[personal profile] tysolna 2009-08-10 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
Ye gods.

Having watched this, all I can say is they should be ashamed. Very much ashamed.

[identity profile] pbristow.livejournal.com 2009-08-10 09:08 am (UTC)(link)
Whoever produced the click-through ad seems to have taken their cue on the wording straight from the linked video report. The "admitted" wording appears twice in the video article on video.ninemsn.com.au . So the AOL UK site may just be showing a click-through ad provided to them from ninemsn, or they may have cooked it up themselves.

Horrible business all round.

[identity profile] pbristow.livejournal.com 2009-08-10 09:18 am (UTC)(link)
A more honest & accurate description would have been "Sleazebag presenters force underage child to discuss her sexual history on national radio, egged on by mother", of course.

[identity profile] redrose999.livejournal.com 2009-08-10 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
WTF They write it like the presenter if the victim not the 14 year old!

It just blows me away really I think we in general have no respect for women who's had any kind of sex crime done to them. We either make it a joke or we blame them for it, or make it a minor footnote.
It completely disgusts me.