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[fiarra]

I feel decidedly "off" today. Like.. this morning was all sorts of annoying and then at work I just felt weak and dehydrated. And it's my mom's day-off today so I haven't been able to get anything done because I keep getting called away to vacuum random parts of the house, or carry things around. And now it's nearly 6 so I've given up on y'know.. stuff.

I was reading the newspaper today. They were doing a report on the girl who was shot yesterday at Wesleyan (=\ may she rest in peace). I was.. very disturbed by it though. They had one article about.. y'know.. the situation.. and then a whole article talking about her and the CONTENTS OF HER LIVEJOURNAL. Complete with a picture of it, talking about the things she complained about it.. and excerpts. And I was floored because.. well.. if anything were to happen to me, the last thing I would want is to have the contents of my journal published in the local paper. They didn't give her username, but with the images and quotes.. it would be easy enough to find.

So... not entirely sure what to think about it really. I mean, yes if it is posted outside of a f-lock, it is free for all of the internets to access. But it seems little wrong to use that stuff to report on later. Like.. what point is there to publish comments on how she was upset she got a B in one of her classes one semester?

Anyway... I have to go.. vaccum the stairs or something. -_-;;

Comments

[stolenrain.livejournal.com]

sadly, that girl who was killed is a friend of one of my friends. She's pretty shaken up about it, and its sad how the media will just gobble up anything they can find about any story these days. Horrible.

[starsparkle333.livejournal.com]

:( I'm so sorry to hear that. Most of the time I don't pay attention to that media stuff, but this caught my eye in a bad way. It even said in the article that family was not answering questions from them.. so why would they think that printing stuff from her online journal is ok?!

*hugs*

[stolenrain.livejournal.com]

because people suck... plain and simple. They'll turn anything into a peep show these days.

[tmchiba.livejournal.com]

First of all the Wesleyan thing is so sad. (R.I.P.) At my job part of what I do is scan the news for clips related to our industry and so in doing that I've been seeing the Wesleyan article everywhere. It's so depressing and scary.

Second of all, as someone who went to college for ten years and has actually seen my last campus have some more violent incidents it's also scary. I thought of my first college as an oasis, though I knew full well to still be careful at 3am. Still, few places where ya can go for coffee at 4am and feel like you're not in danger. But now it's like...scary stuff.

Third as for the LJ, I have no clue why the police and media are delving into it. It's like...so odd...I guess they're attempting to humanize the victim, as if that were necessary. Our media today is just ridiculous sometimes when it comes to trying to turn every story into a pullitzer. And I second your feelings, it's like...oh yeah I'd just love for the media to go into my LJ and piece together things....how ridiculous.

[starsparkle333.livejournal.com]

=| That sounds like a sad part of your job honestly.

I agree with you on feeling like college campuses are like.. safe-space. It's like, you're there taking classes instead of doing that "real world" thing so it feels like that should keep the other parts of the real world away too. *sigh* And then it's incidents like that where you think 'well shit, nowhere is safe', but you have to go about anyway.