Reply #89: I don't know which post you mean, but...

[El Pinko]

...even if there are a few oddballs that genuinely get their jollies off of things like that, I don't think it's as big a problem as you make it out to be, and I don't think the Holloway poll was a good example since it was more about media covering trivial non-stories than an ACTUAL referendum about a specific girl. She was used as a symbol of that bad reporting, albeit in a tasteless way.

I personally voted "don't give a f***" in that poll, but the only message I was sending was that I don't want stories like the Holloway girl to dominate the news, and I think the majority of those votes meant the same thing.

If you were to make another poll on the subject with these choices:


1. I really don't care if Holloway was murdered or how her parents feel.

2. I simply don't think the Holloway story is worthy of national news covereage.


I am confident that the second choice would win hands down.


You need to understand that people use a lot of hyperbole in theiir posts and on't always literally mean what they say.



Again, if somebody thinks that a family freezing to death in the woods or a guy getting killed by a stangray is funny, well maybe they are sociopaths. Maybe they'e just immature. I dunno. I just think you're making a lot of

big assumptions about people on the basis of web forum posts and making huge leaps by calling them such horrible names.

Honestly, if you hadn't made this post, it would have never occurred to me that this was a problem. From what I've seen, this is a pretty compassionate and kind group overall.