OMG! How Low Can Mormon Journalism Go (link)

[_EAllusion]

Sarcasm aside, this thread and your comments are just a disgusting display of depravity and idiocy.

It seems irrelevant to me, like randomly describing what shoes she was wearing. I get that the audience cares that she was LDS and so it makes sense of for the writer to write the story, but I don't think the audience should care. I mean, if she was atheist that wouldn't be a detail that I would feel should be mentioned as a notable part of the story. I don't regard that view as depraved or stupid. Are you personally more empathetic towards a tragedy if you find out LDS were involved? Because if so, that's kinda gross Mak.

[_maklelan]

It seems irrelevant to me, like randomly describing what shoes he was wearing. I get that the audience cares that he was LDS and so it makes sense of for the writer to write that way, but I don't think the audience should care. I mean, if he was atheist that wouldn't be a detail that I would feel should be mentioned as a notable part of the story. I don't regard that view as depraved or stupid. Are you personally more empathetic towards a tragedy if you find out LDS were involved? Because if so, that's kinda gross Mak.

You misunderstand. The person's religion is irrelevant. This thread is a study in bigotry because the author is trying to use the person's religion and a rather benign journalistic attempt to give the story a local tie-in to marginalize her victimization and ridicule "Mormon Journalism." It's disgusting.

[_EAllusion]

Before it gets said, I understand that people have an easier time connecting to others when they share a part of their identity. American media is notorious for covering international stories mostly in terms of how Americans are affected. If an Earthquake kills 5000 and 3 of those people are Americans, that's where the story is going. And while that goes so far as to be worthy of criticism, I sympathetic to the principle for why that happens. But if it has gotten to the point that a minor victim in a spree killing is especially notable to you as a news story in of itself because she also is LDS, you're going way too far.

[_EAllusion]

You misunderstand. The person's religion is irrelevant. This thread is a study in bigotry because the author is trying to use the person's religion and a rather benign journalistic attempt to give the story a local tie-in to marginalize her victimization and ridicule "Mormon Journalism." It's disgusting.

The tie-in the author goes with is mostly religious. It's local because the audience is heavily Mormon in that area. I agree that TMB is trying to decry the self-centeredness of Mormon journalism and that's unfair. Like others said, it's just knowing your audience. But I do think the audience should reflect on whether they should care that she's LDS. I think this is more of a universal problem than a Mormon thing, so I agree going after it as a Mormon thing just because this specific iteration is Mormon is unfair.

[_lulu]

[color=#400080]When the wrong doer is a Mormon and that fact is stated in the media, some practicing Mormons are all over how irrelevant it is.

So how is a victim's religion relevant here?

It's not, which is why it's pretty stupid for someone to be using her religion to try to marginalize her experience.

It's pretty stupid for the LDS Church's media arm to have mentioned it in the first place.