The Mail article is more of an attack on the Guardian.
― weight and bulk are your enemies (Ned Trifle II),
Who'd have thought it, eh?
― mroo (Pashmina), Sunday, 26 April 2009 11:00 (fifteen years ago) link
ha, this whole deal reminds me of thishttp://www.break.com/tv-shows/saturday-night-live/prose-and-cons-626242.html
The requested video cannot be displayed in your region because we are stupid.
― weight and bulk are your enemies (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 26 April 2009 11:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Disappointing lack of comments on that Mail article - it's as if nobody really cares.
― weight and bulk are your enemies (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 26 April 2009 11:12 (fifteen years ago) link
if you google eddie murphy and "prose and cons" you might get another source that plays it. it's a classic snl short that spoofs on the whole norman mailer/jack henry abbott debaclehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abbott
― velko, Sunday, 26 April 2009 11:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Henry, I'd like to know exactly why you believe I sound out of my depth here, as your dismissal was a bit...shallow. I draw on many things I'm not prepared to discuss in depth on a public message board but what I will say is that I've had a lot of access to law enforcement opinion over the years and have helped to administer prison writing programmes in the past. I also have zero time for over-reliance on victim status as a kind of everlasting gobstopper of emotional blackmail when other victims and survivors aren't like that. My opinion isn't derived solely from watching how the topic plays out in the media and if there's a non-spectator element behind your words some clarity is in order, because it doesn't seem like it.
I'm satisfied with EJ's rationale behind his previous anonymity and I wonder what the reasoning behind his outing *really* is. Attack on Graun for its recent stance on criminal justice, maybe?
To answer your other question, comparing murderers with sex offenders for the purpose of this discussion is a bit apples and oranges.
At least this thread is good for one thing: capturing the reptile-brain thought processes of tabloid reporters in real time.
― suggest bánh mi (suzy), Sunday, 26 April 2009 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link