Behind The Palfrey Spectacle
TOOLBOX   Resize
 Save/Share +
COMMENT
 Discussion Policy
 CLOSE
Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. Finally, we will take steps to block users who violate any of our posting standards, terms of use or privacy policies or any other policies governing this site. Please review the full rules governing commentaries and discussions. You are fully responsible for the content that you post.
|
I am dismayed by the coverage of the Deborah Jeane Palfrey affair, particularly on television but in The Post as well. It was shameless on the part of prosecutors to choose the witnesses they selected and on the part of the media, including The Post, to give such detailed and lingering attention to the personal lives of the foolish women who participated in Palfrey's illegal enterprise.
Palfrey's suicide [front page, May 2] saddens me, and I hope it will cause the shallow and exploitative reporters and editors who hounded her and her former minions at least a modicum of pause if not regret.
It is not the media's fault that she operated an illegal business and got caught, but it is likely that their childish and remorseless use of her peccadilloes contributed to the sordid outcome -- and certainly created the unseemly spectacle her trial became.
-- George H. Lawrence
Alexandria
