Way to not treat someone like a human, news.

[RickLM]

No doubt this will be a Law & Order episode, starring Tia Carrere.

[Foolish Mortal]

I think a lot of news organizations forget that these are real people they're talking about and not fictionalized characters.

[lonesomefool]

I'm sorry about your friend and this whole situation and the New York Post does suck, but I also dont see the big deal about using her real name. I agree it isnt very sensitive, but I can see where they are coming from cause, for better or for worse, a story about someone getting kidnapped/murder/suicide isnt as interesting in our desensitized culture unless it has something "juicy" or "anti-mainstream" like S&M.

[Fake Pat]

Just think, would they do this if it were a government official? A kid down the block from you?

Are you kidding here?

Of course they would.

Because it's part of the story.

[lonesomefool]

I think a lot of news organizations forget that these are real people they're talking about and not fictionalized characters.

Eh, we all guilty of that though on some scale. I mean think of the way sports fans call for coaches and players to lose their living on a weekly basis or how people treat some politicians.

[Fake Pat]

I think a lot of news organizations forget that these are real people they're talking about and not fictionalized characters.

I'm still not really sure what they did to this woman that is so horrifying.

If she's not ashamed of her lifestyle, then there's no problem.

[Thudpucker]

What's wrong with using her real name in news stories? Don't reporters always use victums real names when reporting on something like a murder?

[ShortStack]

I'm sorry about your friend and this whole situation and the New York Post does suck, but I also dont see the big deal about using her real name. I agree it isnt very sensitive, but I can see where they are coming from cause, for better or for worse, a story about someone getting kidnapped/murder/suicide isnt as interesting in our desensitized culture unless it has something "juicy" or "anti-mainstream" like S&M.

the using her real name thing will be a problem for her when she tries to get a job, also she wasn't out to some members of her family. Most jobs do background searches on google and the like now and her real name had not been connected with any of her fetish photography work until now. It's going to really hurt her. And even if those consequences weren't there (and even if they found out anyway, it could have happened), was it necessary? They did not have to use her real name and she certainly didn't give it to them.

[SgtPepper]

Fuck the New York Post.
They can eat my taint.
If I ever met any asshole who worked there, I'd slap them around with my AP stylebook.

Worst fucking journalists ever. I'm horrified by the idea that thos pricks might one day be my comtemporaries.

I do think it's the responsibility of the media to inform the public about what's going on.
I don't think they should have used the photos though. I fail to see any of the four ethical principles in any of them.

[Fake Pat]

the using her real name thing will be a problem for her when she tries to get a job, also she wasn't out to some members of her family. Most jobs do background searches on google and the like now and her real name had not been connected with any of her fetish photography work until now. It's going to really hurt her. And even if those consequences weren't there (and even if they found out anyway, it could have happened), was it necessary? They did not have to use her real name and she certainly didn't give it to them.

And that's her fault.

An employer could have discovered this through many other ways.