Was absolutely shocked to pick today's Daily News and find that they put a photo of the body of U.S. ambassador to Libya J. Chris Stevens out front. (The L.A. Times ran it, too.) (The caption actually says "Libyan allies try in vain to save unconscious Ambassador Chris Stevens, victim of fiery attack believed to be terrorist plot," but he sure looks dead to me.) I remember Jackie Kennedy keeping the blood-stained Chanel suit on so people could "see what they had been done" -- and the New York Times recently putting graphic photos of the murder by the Empire State Building on the cover so people could "see" what gun violence looks like, so I'm wondering if this was the same kind of thought that motivated them. What do you think of this move by New York's less-tacky tabloid? Read about another one of the victims HERE.
The story of a 73-year-old bird watcher who was raped in Central Park is more harrowing than you can imagine. She had seen her rapist masturbating in the Rambles about a week ago and snapped a photo of him -- which enrage him. A week later he approached her and said, "Do you remember me?" He then brutally bashed her head into the ground, raped her vaginally and anally and threatened to cut her jugular. She's pissed and wants revenge. Read HERE.
UPDATE: Police have someone in custody.
The New York Times did not run a graphic photo on its front page, but it did have on on its Web site. The State Department asked them to remove it, but they declined.
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