COULDN'T HELP BUT NOTICE DEPARTMENT
Many thanks to your Payson Roundup for the enlightening and graphic front page story on March 29 about a Payson High School senior groping a fellow student in a baseball field dugout -- nearly two years ago.Certainly does a lot to make people want to come to the Rim Country for a vacation. Or move their companies here to bring some new jobs. Or open a restaurant. Or buy a house and retire here. One has to wonder if the chamber or the town's tourism folks picked up the phone and complained to Roundup Publisher John Naughton.
If it had to run at all, why couldn't that story have been placed somewhere other than the front page? What did we gain by reading it? What did our community gain by its placement?
2 comments:
The community didn't gain a thing from that story, but it sure sounds like the Roundup was trying to dredge up sympathy for the poor perpetrator, who only pled guilty to get a light sentence and doesn't feel he did anything wrong. Nobody's hand "accidentally" slips into someone's pants while tickling them. And tickling someone against their will is a form of torture in the first place.
A year in jail isn't enough for this would-have-been rapist. But let's all feel sorry for him because it was an "accident" that he sexually assaulted a girl against her will. Good job, Roundup.
If somebody wants to read this kind of crap, they can just go to Wal-Mart and buy a dirty novel. It's a lot cheaper than a subscription to the Roundup. They say about newspapers, "If it bleeds, it leads." Apparently that's also true if "he gropes."
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