I think a class action law suit against “Pedanski” on behalf of raped children is appropriate considering the outrage against his arrest.

Thanks for the reply, and your point is well taken previous… there is a point at which stories can, what I call, 'go OJ'… We'll try not to do that…

dr.e

It's not meant to annoy. Just to stay current on some stories. We dont have, as the big newspapers do, daily meetings about what will be covered decided by the editors at the top. (Not even sure where we would find time between day jobs, family, trying to write, and keep body soul and mind together, lol.)

So, at any time there may be several writers at TMV writing in the same area. Some bloggers do cover/ follow the bubble until it goes flat. Others are more eccentric in their choices of what to cover/ write about.

On this particular subject, one of the reasons it has legs beyond a good many people's forbearance, is because it is not one issue: it raises many: children and sexuality, those found guilty of sexual offenses who are close in age to the victim, predations by those far older than the young person, the mileau of 1970s Hollywood that often took its morals from the not so Golden mores of times past (casting couch, etc). Whether P. had a fair hearing to begin with. Whether a victim who is compensated monetarily in civil case, has a right to pursue a criminal case. Why some people want to forget. Why some want to remember. How a horrible childhood can influence later behavior, as in identification with the oppressor. How some have gone blue-rage over the event then, and again now. How some have said, well, it wasnt “rape Rape.”

All those and more, being triggers to write about.

Just my two cents worth. LIkely there will be more articles about the Polanski case at TMV. I've one I've been holding out of the flurry myself. I may or may not run it. That's another editorial issue many of our readers may not know about… there's a WordPress board for our site that readers cannot see…. that is filled with no doubt over 100 articles (starts and completions) by all our writers that have been written and ready to go if we release them, or are partially written and might be released.

That board is as interesting and wide in topics sometimes as our front page. Many of the stories there are never released. The times change. Interests change. A child got sick and you never could complete the article in a timely way. You busted down outside of Iowa City, and cant get wifi anywhere to complete the article in a timeframe that matters. Lots of 'lots of.'

But, you can be sure, most of our core writers are writing on many topics, many of which reach the front page.

dr.e.
deputy managing editor