Comments on Advance Indiana™: Carmel High School Cover-Up: It's Happened Before

The Star is a literal thin facade of what not only...

2010-05-23T21:31:18.637-05:00

The Star is a literal thin facade of what not only they, but most newspapers used to be. If it's not bad enough to be hard-wired for political correctness in editorial decisions, they're also overrun by the much larger societal, technological, and fiscal transformation.

Younger people generally don't care about reading a newspaper, or current events for that matter. Production and labor costs rising while advertising dollars are diffused amongst competition for a shrinking constituency about guarantee newspapers are going away. I'm more concerned that two-sided, single source journalism disappears with it.

The decline is enhanced with only printing one side of the story. The less-heard side, such as the Wall Street Journal, is lasting longer. But, getting people to pay for internet subscriptions when we're spoiled on "free" is an experiment that has not yet cleared the tower.

I say as I'm trying to recall if I sent a donation to Gary- yet.

Indy4U2C, That's a hard thing to prove...at l...

2010-05-23T06:10:31.310-05:00

Indy4U2C,

That's a hard thing to prove...at least to the satisfaction of the Southern District federal court. I would steer clear of any federal claims and file it in state court where the defendants won't be able to get a dismissal. Our local federal courts lives to dismiss cases.

The only way for justice to be served will be in a...

2010-05-23T04:55:58.315-05:00

The only way for justice to be served will be in a Federal Civil trial which I believe will show that Carmel City Schools has a custom, policy, and practice of aiding and abetting violent homosexual child molesting and failing to report matters to DCS as required by law...respondeat superior.

The superintendent and school board will likely be held accountable in such a case.

Hoosier in the Heartland, I disagree to an extent....

2010-05-23T00:07:13.162-05:00

Hoosier in the Heartland, I disagree to an extent. It depends on what the journalist's job is. If they work a very specific hard news beat, then yeah, the editor probably dulls out the stories as the events occur. Not much control. But for columnists and other writers, they might be finding the story themselves.

And even if an editor does hand out stories, it's a reporter's job to find a (unique) angle for the story.

It's not the reporters, it's the editors a...

2010-05-22T21:53:08.982-05:00

It's not the reporters, it's the editors and their owners.

Reporters have absolutely no control over what they cover, what they write about, how what they've written appears in the paper, etc.

Ryerson is the one who should be taken to task for this egregious lapse in Journalism 101, not the hapless reporters!

The Star does little more than regurgitate what th...

2010-05-22T14:30:54.182-05:00

The Star does little more than regurgitate what their 'newsgathering partner' WTHR broadcasts.

I share your frustration with this generation of I...

2010-05-22T10:57:45.712-05:00

I share your frustration with this generation of Indianapolis Star's reporters. HOPE they do not get even more mediocre.

That's a direct quote from the Star's arch...

2010-05-22T10:08:57.351-05:00

That's a direct quote from the Star's archived story. Like I said, I can't believe the Star hasn't mentioned this old case before, and her's and the school's handling of it.

"She said the student who was assaulted had a...

2010-05-22T09:56:34.119-05:00

"She said the student who was assaulted had a learning disability that might have prompted the students to be mean [to him]."

Leerkamp said this?

Seriously?

This is absolutely outrageous. It's similar to the rumor that one of the victims is gay, and thus was "asking for it."

But what surprises me is it's coming from the Prosecutor's mouth.