They also have follow up stories: To really get to know the people in this tragic event
Victim profiles: Jennifer Renee Davis | Andrea H. Pisanello
The suspect: 'His whole world got turned around'
http://www.tampabay.com / (find all the articles at this link--if you really want to stomache smut journalism)
This is disgusting journalism... It takes the victims and turns them into a play or a movie made for t.v.... They become impersonal, and the family that is left to pick up the peices and grieve are hit over the head with blathering crap. Its also the healine news for the local t.v. talking heads. So, I wrote to the editor.
My response to this shit:
Subject: Suicide-Murder on the Front Page
I was absolutely appalled by your front page splash of the tragic suicide-murder of 5 people. I realize its big news for an area like this when most days you are praying for a news story, but this is disgusting. This is the type of thing I'd expect to be smeared across a smut rag like the National Enquirer. A simple- in the middle of the paper small article would have been enough. How horrible for the family and this community that this tragedy has transpired. AND you thought to glorify this tragedy by splashing it on the front page along with pictures and names. I am disgusted by this action.
And let me also explain that there are important news subjects that need to be covered and are being ignored. Perhaps covering the fact that the CIA has destroyed torture tapes and the White House has increased its paper shredding bill like no other administration. Maybe you could cover the FISA bill and the immunity that the Senate is trying to get for telecom companies for illegaly spying on Americans. Perhaps you can cover one of the hundreds of crimes being perpetrated by the Bush administration. There are enough of these topics that you'd have a new story every day of the week. Instead, you decide the most important news coverage of the day is to cover a tragic event. I'd say this is a private family event that they will need to recover from. This is not a subject that should be splashed all over the news while the family is trying to grieve and uderstand what happened that all of this transpired in the first place... Thanks for proving once again why at times I decide to stop subscribing to this paper. I hate to put money in the pockets of inconsiderate intellectuals who cover non-news issues for the all mighty dollar. Smut journalism is not classy and is woefully disgusting.