Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story of a boy's adventures." Some boy. Some adventures. Both are as far as they could be from innocent visions of Tom Sawyer or Horatio Alger. Even discounting a particularly bloody penultimate encounter, Billy Bathgate directly witnesses two murders and helps dispose of the body of a third victim. In each case, the perpetrator is the notorious gangster Dutch Schultz, ne Arthur Flegenheimer, Billy's self-described "mentor" and as romantically dangerous a father figure as any lad could desire. Billy is his real name, Bathgate an alias he has invented, lifted from a street, known for its open...
...most accounts, there is much room for improvement. In a 1985 survey by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, more than 78% of the people questioned believed the press does not "worry much about hurting people." Almost two-thirds of the respondents agreed that journalists take advantage of victims of circumstance. Perhaps the worst transgressor is the TV camera operator who zooms in on the face of a dead person's relative -- and stays there as the face dissolves in grief. Says Anne Seymour, public affairs director for the National Victim Center in Fort Worth: "Any time there...
When covering death, reporters and editors face a difficult paradox: the best material in a journalistic sense very often turns out to be what is most painful to grieving survivors. News organizations, driven by intense competition, rarely let concern for a victim's privacy get in the way of a scoop. The push for live coverage of late-breaking news has put local TV stations in the uncomfortable position of being able to broadcast word of a person's death before the victim's family has been officially notified...
Several news organizations have responded to public criticism by adopting - new codes of behavior. WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, for example, forbids its reporters to ask victims' relatives how they feel. When the family of a hit- and-run victim asked television reporters to stay away from the funeral last month, WCCO agreed, even though its competitors did not. Rosemary McManus, assistant editor at Long Island's Newsday in New York, says she never sends a reporter to the home of a victim until she is sure the family is aware of the death, and always instructs her reporters to honor...
Indeed, if he is hung without the suppressed testimonies and files being brought to light, Demjanjuk may ultimately go down in history not as Ivan the Terrible, but, as Patrick Buchanan puts it, "the victim of a greater miscarriage of justice than Alfred Dreyfus...