Posted by:
Richard Foxe
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Date: October 05, 2010 06:02AM
I am watching the show now (rebroadcast in Japan). This is certainly going against the current, but I'm frustrated that he is repeating "as fact" the immediate media line on the Rutgers suicide, and nobody thinks twice about accepting it. That line is, 'Tyler was secretly taped having sex [full intimate implication] and the recording was broadcast over the internet to the WHOLE WORLD--twice!'
Forget the fact that both Tyler and Dharun merely described it as "making out." The media, having no direct sources, kicks into exaggeration mode.
If it was "taped," how come there is no tape? If it was on the internet, how come there is no record of that? If it was broadcast to the whole world, how come nobody around the world, around the country, even around Rutgers, admits to having seen it? From what people actually present report, it was only live-streamed for a brief time on one computer screen in one girl's room. And only once, as Tyler stated online that he dismantled the camera later.
There are several other separate things that don't seem to add up (but that's not the subject of this post), and if the other Rutgers students have capable lawyers, the media will be shown to be extremely culpable here. This is no defense of bullying, and most of Larry King's show is relevant in raising awareness on this issue, But the Rutgers case is being "made to fit" the bill instead of all angles being investigated and reported accurately. What does any one who is really interested in eliminating hate crimes have to lose by getting the facts straight and learning the possibly complex truth about this case?
Maybe this comment isn't appropriate for this place, and if not, I'll understand its deletion. But "Recovery from Mormonism" does involve getting off the bandwagon of repeated stories--about the church, about gender roles, about race and sex and social behaviors, etc.--and discovering the underlying truth, no matter how unsettling.