Why Am I Disgusted About Zoey Zane?
November 30th, 2007 by Jared MorrisA couple of days ago another missing college student was reported. The photo shows a 18-years-old, all american college girl, cute and innocent looking. I’m always horribly disturbed when I hear of any young girl missing. I don’t know why that bothers me than other stories. It just gets me. It reminds me that there is evil in the world. But, then a different kind of evil started showing up in this story. The cut-throat media. I labored over why was I so bothered by this story. Turns out the missing girl had an Interet site where she took off her clothes for money. Well, boy howdy… How the 24 hour news cycle leeched on to that little tidbit. No longer were we looking for a missing girl… we were looking for a missing PORN STAR! (not hardly, what she did was more akin to being a stripper than a porn star) - Every news outlet.. Every Network.. Every Web site “missing college girl leads double life as PORN STAR” — They then forgot that this was a real person and not some juicy information the public can salivate over — “Oh, Henry… did you hear about that missing porn star? She had some internets sites.” — I’m horrified. It took me a little bit of time to realize why I was so bothered by the story. The police said that the media’s rabid attention on her Internet activity had nothing to do with the crime.. but, also that the media’s obsession “greatly inhibited” the investigation. Right, salivating dogs no longer wanted to help find her… they wanted to know what her Web site was… “Really, where can we send pictures too.” — Now, come 24 hours later… They may have found her body. I’m sick over the emerging details of the crime… and what will the media say “Figures, Porn Star found dead.” — Sure, she made a bad decision to do that site… but, you’re tarnishing life as a whole to focus on what someone does not who someone is.
November 30th, 2007 at 8:40 am
Good points re-made, Jared. All too often, particularly in rape cases, attacks of different sort on women, the case comes down how she was dressed, what she did for a living or where she spent her time and none of them…not one…has a d**n thing to do with the fact that a crime had been committed against her. This media garbage is enough already.
November 30th, 2007 at 8:47 am
Right, and Christians support wars while professing love others because it’s socially right and garners approval, and if one can express an opinion it is taken as knowledge and the expressing one feels important enough to condemn those who disagree with him/her.
News… is that claiming higher degrees in all areas of knowledge or being the jury because you write the evidence as you write the rules from how you’re feeling and how many will be will be asking you what is and what isn’t?
As we read and discuss everything with which we have no experience have we any right to care if there are no fables and novels about how it is to be human and how we forgot to recognize them?
November 30th, 2007 at 8:48 am
Jared, as a parent to a college student daughter, my heart goes out to the family here, the story that should be told. Does it make it any less a crime if she was a “Porn star” as she has been labeled? Will it matter when investigators put together the hours leading up to her death? Probably not. So what, she had naked pictures on the internet….her and a 1000 other young girls and let us not forget the male species is just as guilty.
The media, what a joke, their ethics are long forgotten much like the doctor who is guilty of ill repute. I wonder what we would find if we were allowed to open the medias’ closets. Wait a minute, they would be the first to scream it is irrelevant, much like what that poor childs’ internet site was. Someone should remind them of the mother and father left behind to bury their child and the pain and unanswered questions that never fade, much like the way this story will fade, after all, it seems like only sensationalism is news worthy.
I know the pain these parents are feeling. I buried my own daughter in April. Her life was taken by her boyfriend.
November 30th, 2007 at 10:14 am
Potnetgal, you understand what most never will. If people were left a bit more to think without the media directing they might know it too. I don’t wish to say more and make an opportunity from what is with you.
What is important is who we’re with.
November 30th, 2007 at 10:46 am
Potnetgal, my heartfelt thoughts go out to you and your family…and, of course, families everywhere who have had to lay a child to rest. Hard enough a ‘natural’ death but having someone else take that life is surely too much to comprehend.
I have no respect for the media in these matters, for sure…but nor do I respect the members of the public who seem to thrive on this sort of thing. Those who can’t wait to check out the young woman’s web site (courtesy of the media), those who find it the talking point of the day, (courtesy of the updates from the media) and those who would judge this child’s entire life by the portrayal…of the media. When we stop craving this muck the media throws at us, stop buying their yellow rags, listening to their sad and questionable journalism and start complaining full force maybe then it will stop.
December 1st, 2007 at 1:24 am
The media personality says “Look at me but not my actions. Look at these I allege unto another and praise me for doing so.”
Disintegration is a collective effort.
Eugene Debs said “While there is a lower class I am in it; while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not freeâ€
-And now we have these news people grinding in allegations in order to lower others. How can those in a society be happy while they strive to defeat each other?
What the media does is not short of perversion.
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:15 am
Let me just shed a tear here on your blog for Emily Sander. I never heard of her before I read all the gleeful slander in the press. But I see a sparkling specimen of humanity, a kid with God’s fingerprints all over her… snuffed out in an unhappy ending. My heart is torn for her.
I wish I could have shown her some sort of kindness in the days of her short life. I want to pray for her, but she is dead. I wish I knew something kind to say about her, and I’m sure there is much to say.
Here in the end, only God knows the wonder and the real beauty of this little child of his. May God receive her soul, and vindicate her name, and may he crown her with life in the Resurrection.
Goodbye, little girl.