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...minute ride from Amy Fisher's waterfront Long Island home to the academically elite John F. Kennedy High School, where she is in her final year, is a montage of Middle American normality: flags fluttering over front porches, hand-painted signs tacked to trees announcing weekend garage sales, white-haired elders watering lawns, teenage boys working on cars. But somehow, as Fisher traveled that brief and reassuring stretch of terrain day after day, her life took the sort of detour that is every parent's nightmare. She is accused of becoming a prostitute by age 15, meeting customers through...
...charges against her are true -- and even her attorney does not seem to dispute her career as a pubescent prostitute -- Fisher's sordid story still would seem to have little to reveal about the norms of her community. Her town of Merrick is a place where success is equated with discipline, exemplified in the manicured lawns and shrubbery of Berkley Lane, where she grew up, and with drive and ambition, epitomized in the way the high school carries grade-point averages out to four decimal places for precision in class rank. This is where the American Dream still works, where...
...tabloid newspapers have covered the "Long Island Lolita" story with a thoroughness and imagination that they rarely bring to stories about the city's politics or its $29 billion budget. One Daily News photographer was staked out full time as close as he could get to the house of Fisher's alleged lover. His hope: that the victimized wife, home from the hospital, would come out onto the deck for a moment of sunshine -- and an unintended photo opportunity...
Back at the city desk, headline writers have outdone themselves. A story about the unverified claim of a Long Island chef that he was recruited by Fisher to commit the murder, only to renege once he had been serviced by her, was billed by the News as paid me in sex. The rival Post topped that for titillation, peddling the same story as amy's horny...
Tabloid TV programs have been bawdier -- and scrappier. After A Current Affair ballyhooed upcoming videotape of a call girl plying her trade with a bare-bottomed customer, said to be Fisher and a john, the competing Hard Copy aired a smidgen of the scene half an hour sooner, allegedly swiping it off a satellite feed. This prompted a lively melee over journalistic ethics in two corners not normally thought to possess many...