{"id":539,"date":"2004-02-06T08:57:02","date_gmt":"2004-02-06T08:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=539"},"modified":"2004-02-06T08:57:02","modified_gmt":"2004-02-06T08:57:02","slug":"why-they-hate-us-part-973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/02\/why-they-hate-us-part-973\/","title":{"rendered":"Why They Hate Us Part 973"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the other day I&#8217;m at the workout room doing my Stairmaster thing and the TV&#8217;s got CNN or some other channel on, and they keep playing the surveillance camera footage of the 11-year-old girl being abducted.<br \/>\n<P><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/02\/06\/national\/06CND-SARA.html?hp\">Now her body&#8217;s been found <\/a>and the guy in the video is being charged with murder. <P><br \/>\nI just want to ask the folks on the TV networks: are you happy now that you&#8217;ve shown the last known images of this girl before she was murdered?<br \/>\n<P>I know, it&#8217;s just news to us media folks, but for God&#8217;s sake that&#8217;s somebody&#8217;s little girl &#8212; and now she&#8217;s dead.<br \/>\n<P>I guess our intrusion on her last moments is nothing compared to the actual crime,  and even if the networks hadn&#8217;t run the images her mom would&#8217;ve been just as devastated.  And sure, it probably helps to get pictures out to help capture the killer.<br \/>\n<P>But geeze, sometimes we do stuff in this biz that gives me the chills. This is one of &#8217;em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the other day I&#8217;m at the workout room doing my Stairmaster thing and the TV&#8217;s got CNN or some other channel on, and they keep playing the surveillance camera footage of the 11-year-old girl being abducted. Now her body&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/02\/why-they-hate-us-part-973\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}