http://wppjradio.pointparkjournalism.com/wppj-sports/to-name-or-not-to-name-is-the-naming-of-victims-of-sexual-assault-victims-alright The Voice of Point Park Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:17:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://wppjradio.pointparkjournalism.com/wppj-sports/to-name-or-not-to-name-is-the-naming-of-victims-of-sexual-assault-victims-alright/comment-page-1#comment-533 Jill Jack Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:12:03 +0000 http://wppjradio.pointparkjournalism.com/?p=972#comment-533 In the article “To name or not to name: Is naming the victims of sexual assault alright?” the author says “The media should release victims of sexual crimes names; they should be shouted from the hills. And in the case of the victims and the victim’s families, they must know that the media has a job to do, and not to get in the way of that, and realize that being a victim, is not an embarrassment,” What he does not note is the victim’s danger, or that to her own wishes might be to move past her trauma without having the whole world know her name. The publication of sexual assault victim’s names is not an issue of who is or isn’t embarrassed; it is about respecting the victim by allowing her to live her life without persecution from the press. The Author also states “Regardless of what the victim has been through, it is not the journalists decision whether the person has been through too much, they are to report the news, and by withholding information, they are not doing their job,” . To state the facts are a journalists job, but cant one do their job without causing emotional grief. In this article the author states this fact a lot; it’s the reporter’s job to report, case closed. But why is publishing the name of the victim important? Why is it important to humiliate this person who has already gone through trauma once? I think it is fair to allow journalists to report crime that has happened, but saying the names of victims is too far and too precious to those who have faced that kind of trauma. In the article “To name or not to name: Is naming the victims of sexual assault alright?” the author says “The media should release victims of sexual crimes names; they should be shouted from the hills. And in the case of the victims and the victim’s families, they must know that the media has a job to do, and not to get in the way of that, and realize that being a victim, is not an embarrassment,” What he does not note is the victim’s danger, or that to her own wishes might be to move past her trauma without having the whole world know her name. The publication of sexual assault victim’s names is not an issue of who is or isn’t embarrassed; it is about respecting the victim by allowing her to live her life without persecution from the press. The Author also states “Regardless of what the victim has been through, it is not the journalists decision whether the person has been through too much, they are to report the news, and by withholding information, they are not doing their job,” . To state the facts are a journalists job, but cant one do their job without causing emotional grief. In this article the author states this fact a lot; it’s the reporter’s job to report, case closed. But why is publishing the name of the victim important? Why is it important to humiliate this person who has already gone through trauma once? I think it is fair to allow journalists to report crime that has happened, but saying the names of victims is too far and too precious to those who have faced that kind of trauma.

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