Today's the first day I've ever felt embarrassed by this.
As everybody and their dog might already know, yesterday morning TMZ released a video of (former) Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice viciously striking his then fiance in an Atlantic City elevator. And when I say vicious, I mean it.
Now, Ray Rice should go to prison. But that's not the point of this blog.
The video TMZ released was from February. Anybody in tune with the sports world has known about the incident since then, when an original video showed him dragging her limp body from the door.
Disgust was a word I described Rice's actions with when I first heard about abuse. It still is, but now it's old news.
Today, I use disgust referring to TMZ for rekindling this fire in such an insensitive and unprofessional way.
Modern media gets no respect, and it's because of things like this. The story here is not what's on the video, but what happened to the video during these investigations. The story is how the entire NFL claims this is the first time they have seen the tape. What we should be wondering is why it took a video of the actual contact that knocked out Janay for the league to suspend Ray. We all knew this happened.
TMZ decided to release the video on their site. That's all. No concern of newsworthiness, or the impact it would have on the now married couple.
Some "news" sources are just plain scummy and I hate that outside of the media world, the media world is all the same.
The media can be harsh a lot of the time but them releasing the video brings light to the situation. Maybe if TMZ wrote a caption that was insensitive about the domestic violence incident I would have to fully agree with you but ultimately that is what TMZ is known for and thats their job. That is why I personally would not work for TMZ because they just provide information no matter how it will effect the person or society.
ReplyDeleteI agree that their actions lacked tact but I also think domestic abuse is a subject that should be discussed. Again, they should've found a better way to do it, and let's face it, without the scrutiny they're facing now, the NFL probably wouldn't have done anything even if they knew about it.
ReplyDeleteJohn, I agree with you. TMZ really did not handle this appropriately. There are much more tasteful ways to address domestic violence.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you. I think domestic violence is something that is a way bigger issue than we think and more awareness of this matter needs to happen.
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