Freedom of Speech, or ???

[jtur88]

If I had read the article, and remembered those sports events, it would have impressed something on me: Wow, 18 years is really a long time. Maybe that's what he was trying to do.

Jcinsov, did this journalist write something that caused damage to people's lives? Some people are teetering so close to the brink of certifiable insanity, maybe almost anything would damage their lives, if they became uncontrollably hysterical about it and wanted to sit at their keyboards and lash out at everybody. But I don't think editors are responsible to smoothing out their copy to meet the needs of such hair-trigger maniacs.

[mainelander]

Originally Posted by jcinsov

not commenting directly on this article but in general

read above

[AxisMundi]

Originally Posted by sinsativ

This sports columnist wrote a story about the girl that was kidnapped 18 years ago, and minimized it to, what she missed in Sports as being the importance of his story. He defends it with Freedom of speech, freedom of the press. This is why they don't publicize victims information.

The woman has certainly missed alot due to the freak that kidnapped her.

This man is a sports writter, no different than if a political writer "filled her in" on the politics she missed. No different than, should she be Catholic, a religious column writer, or her priest, filling her in on Catholic stuff she's missed.

I think people are over-reacting, and unless the sports writer did this to purposely sensationalize her captivity to sell papers, which I do not see in the column, I am greatly disappointed that the writer even apologized.