What the F#@$ is Wrong With The Post?!?!?!
Okay, I'll put it in the best way I can think to put it, since I know I tend to get ranty with this subject.
If there was some scandalous sex act in the news, no self respecting (or FCC fearing) publication, TV show, or presidential campaign ad would run footage or photos of the act itself.
Yet, when something so shocking, so soul-shattering as someone throwing themselves to their death happens, they run images of it happening with no concern for the outcome, the feelings of those involved, or the collateral damage.
Inside your pages, maybe. On historical footage, ok. ON YOUR GODDAMN FRONT PAGE? I don't want to see it. I know I don't want to see it, so I won't buy your filthy rag, yet you keep pushing this garbage in our face.
That was a real girl. She's really dead. I didn't want to see her mid-air, you scumbags. Neither did the little girl sitting next to me on the subway while 5 people read the paper across from us, holding the paper up at her like so many posters.
The Post now officially joins the list of my boycotted media, along with Fox news for running footage of the WTC jumpers in a commercial for their "Year after" special during American Idol (read: kids watching.) I'd avoided seeing that footage through the whole ordeal, another year and a half later, it's still burned on my retina.
I'm all for freedom of choice. Anyone else can watch anything they want - but in both cases, most watchers didn't know what was coming until they saw it and had no choice.
UPDATE: I'm not alone.
Arrg. I'm also venting at Gothamist where I actually saw the thing. Not big fans of theirs for running the photo on their front page as well. The comment thread (no picture) is here
