Comments on: Abused Girl Sues ABC for Over Filming of Her Beating by Step Father http://jonathanturley.org/2008/02/21/abuses-girl-sues-abc-for-over-filming-of-her-beating-by-step-father/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:18:45 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: karela http://jonathanturley.org/2008/02/21/abuses-girl-sues-abc-for-over-filming-of-her-beating-by-step-father/#comment-30940 karela Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:05:06 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1136#comment-30940 I didn't see the story. The subject matter of child abuse is clearly something that journalists should cover strongly and often. However, if ABC watched a man beat a child without interfering to protect the child and then also failed to report the abuse to authorities, that is disgusting. How would any of us like to be on the receiving end of a beating and have supposedly good people just watch without helping. That would be traumatic. Further, if the courts allowed this to happen without consequences, then we would be seeing more of it on TV and in movies. A real, pain inflicting, humiliating beating is not entertainment. The adults present should have acted. "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke I didn’t see the story. The subject matter of child abuse is clearly something that journalists should cover strongly and often. However, if ABC watched a man beat a child without interfering to protect the child and then also failed to report the abuse to authorities, that is disgusting. How would any of us like to be on the receiving end of a beating and have supposedly good people just watch without helping. That would be traumatic. Further, if the courts allowed this to happen without consequences, then we would be seeing more of it on TV and in movies. A real, pain inflicting, humiliating beating is not entertainment. The adults present should have acted.

“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke

]]> By: jonathanturley http://jonathanturley.org/2008/02/21/abuses-girl-sues-abc-for-over-filming-of-her-beating-by-step-father/#comment-6917 jonathanturley Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:54:09 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1136#comment-6917 Commoner: Indeed, I did see that story. Bizarre case, but it does seem that there was grounds for the decision. Commoner:
Indeed, I did see that story. Bizarre case, but it does seem that there was grounds for the decision.

]]> By: commoner http://jonathanturley.org/2008/02/21/abuses-girl-sues-abc-for-over-filming-of-her-beating-by-step-father/#comment-6912 commoner Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:30:40 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1136#comment-6912 Professor, remember the noose incident at Columbia Teachers College? It appears that the (supposed) victim is guilty of plagiarizing material from her own students' papers... http://www.ivygateblog.com/blog/2008/02/it_aint_over_till_the_accused_lady_cries_conspiracy.html Professor, remember the noose incident at Columbia Teachers College? It appears that the (supposed) victim is guilty of plagiarizing material from her own students’ papers…

http://www.ivygateblog.com/blog/2008/02/it_aint_over_till_the_accused_lady_cries_conspiracy.html

]]> By: watajob http://jonathanturley.org/2008/02/21/abuses-girl-sues-abc-for-over-filming-of-her-beating-by-step-father/#comment-6910 watajob Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:19:53 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1136#comment-6910 I'm truly surprised it's taken this long for the "reality" genre to start having problems such as this. I’m truly surprised it’s taken this long for the “reality” genre to start having problems such as this.

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