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Does this Herald story make it sound like this woman was somehow to blame for boyfriend smashing her face in?

By adamg on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 7:15am

The Herald reports:

Ex-Ch. 7 staffer in scandal is hired

Ex-Channel 7 sports reporter Julie Donaldson has nabbed a full-time TV gig nearly two years after she departed the Hub in the wake of an embarrassing booze and alleged sex scandal.

Gasp! That hussy! Only in the sixth paragraph does reporter Jessica Heslam get around to reminding those of us with short attention spans what actually happened:

Donaldson left Channel 7 for "personal reasons" in late 2008. During the summer of that year, Donaldson's then-boyfriend, professional slamball player Ivan Latimore, brutally attacked her after the pair boozed it up to celebrate Latimore's birthday. The beating left Donaldson with broken face bones, bruises and bite marks.

I dunno. I'm thinking "embarrassing" is not quite the word for a situation like that.


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Comments

By phil on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 8:18am.

I don't know but everytime I see/hear the phrase "professional slamball player" from this story I think of other phrases like: professional horse surfer or professional bog snorkler:

http://green.yahoo.com/blog/guest_bloggers/19/extr...

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By The Beer Guy on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 8:58am.

when they read the words "professional slamball player"?

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By Kaz on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 9:30am.

Those were simpler times when a man could jump on a trampoline because he didn't have "ups" on the court normally.

I wonder how good he is at the psyche-out.

/BASEketball

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By The Beer Guy on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 9:49am.

The only parts I remember from that movie are the DEA jackets worn versus the Mexican team, and "if you call me (I forget the name called) 7 or 8 more times, I'm quitting!"

I'd google it, but I'm too upset over #12

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By Will LaTulippe on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 12:33pm.

"Your mother is a terrible cook!"

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By mmaryy on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 9:27am.

During the incident, the media played it up in a salacious way that made remaining on the job untenable. The poor woman got her face beat in and they were hounding her.

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By DoodleBean on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 10:29am.

She wasn't married to her boyfriend and was - gasp! - having sex with him on a regular basis. When the assault happened, they had been - gasp! - drinking together.

Perfect scenario for blaming the victim.

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By anon on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 9:55am.

Does the reporter know something we don't, or is the reporter mind-bogglingly incompetent or vile?

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By DoodleBean on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 10:26am.

What else do you expect?

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By downtown anon on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 10:08am.

You read the comments for this article and it strongly reinforces the thinking that most people writing comments are teenage boys who don't get out of mom's basement.

(Me, I am just bored at work.)

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By DoodleBean on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 11:54am.

What else do you expect?

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By DoodleBean on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 10:14am.

...but the lede is still essentially the same

(Lede, for those who don't know, is the start of a news article and traditionally the main point.)

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By anon on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 10:55am.

thanks for educating the rest of us. We had no idea.

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By DoodleBean on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 11:55am.

... the inevitable "you spelled lead wrong" replies from people who have heard the word but not seen it written down.

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