WBUR's Andrew Phelps reports on the hostile reaction he got from people while covering funerals for victims of the multiple murder.
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In his eulogy, Bishop Borders
By NotWhitey
Thu, 10/07/2010 - 10:14pm
Don't mind the murders - look at the nice flowers in the yard.
This is news?
By Brian Riccio
Thu, 10/07/2010 - 10:35pm
Intrepid geeky kid reporter from the urban cesspools that are La Jolla and Harvard Square finds that blacks in Mattapan at a funeral have nothing to say to him? Really? Maybe because if it wasn't for a little kid getting killed, the media interest in this would be a couple of nights exposure on Fox or Channel 7, and that would be it.
Let's face it people, few people who live outside of these areas of our fair city could give two shits about what goes on there.
(Raises hand)
By Will LaTulippe
Fri, 10/08/2010 - 3:28am
I don't give a (expletive). I admit it. But that's because the good ones don't cooperate with cops. I can't help people who refuse to help themselves.
The good ones
By The Beer Guy
Fri, 10/08/2010 - 6:22am
The good "whats", Trivia Boy?
The good people
By Will LaTulippe
Fri, 10/08/2010 - 1:32pm
Seriously, how does my (expletive) taste?
If racism had a flavor
By The Beer Guy
Fri, 10/08/2010 - 3:53pm
it would taste just like your expletive!
Go get a dictionary
By Will LaTulippe
Fri, 10/08/2010 - 5:03pm
Look up "racism" and get back to me.
The unidentified woman at
By anon
Thu, 10/07/2010 - 11:26pm
I don't think I would have called that one that way.
Oh, *Thank You*!
By Lecil
Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:17am
As someone who grew up in Brookline, I of course would have no idea how the family of a dead child would be feeling at the funeral unless it was shown to me, despite requests from the family for some peace and quiet and relief from the press.
Please.
I am a strong believer in the freedom of the press. But don't justify being rude at a funeral by your percieved need to "show" me something you assume I can't figure out on my own. There was no serving of the "greater good" here.
The media is very prejudice!!!!
By My God Where is...
Fri, 10/15/2010 - 10:09pm
Where were the pictures of Charles Stewarts grieving family when he killed his wife and unborn baby, blaimed it on a black man and killed himself, no pictures of his parents balling their eyes out when they found out the truth, instead they had a very well composed family spokesperson. Where were the media's cameras when the coroner removed the dead bodies in the winchester masacre??? While they were filming dead bodies laying in the street with blood stained sheets over them they should have been thinking that whatsoever "the cruel level of insensitivity and disrepect" a man soweth that shall he also reap!!! What if this were their family members would they have wanted it reported in such a way? I think not. I believe that as sad as it is to say they will have their turn. When there white teenagers are killed drunk drinking, having wrapped their cars around trees and such, the "Media" don't show dead, limp, lifeless bodies being pulled from the rubble, why is this so????? Most of them still have the subliminal belief and attitude that blacks are 3/5 human and therefore don't deserve any respect, as I said they will have their turns, What they put out will inevitably return to them. Then they will change the way they report!!!
stuart case
By bostnkid
Mon, 10/18/2010 - 2:24pm
if i remember correctly there was a fairly graphic picture of carol stuart on the front page of the herald.
i dont remember ever seeing the body of a young (or old) african american murder victim in the paper.
This isn't theater
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 10/08/2010 - 9:30am
Funerals are personal family stuff. A photographer wandering around shoving a lens in people's faces and snapping away is intrusive and should get a lesson in basic human decency.
Yes, this is big news - but this is also the family and community's time to grieve and they should be able to do it without some intrusive person with no personal connection to the deceased shoving his way into that space.
"I had to tell this story"? What a selfish callous douchebag.
There have also been over a
By erik g
Fri, 10/08/2010 - 9:44am
There have also been over a hundred shootings, and dozens of fatalities this year in this part of the city. And it is only now, after the death of an infant, that any media outlet is picking up the story of how bad it's gotten in Mattapan it as more than a single sentence byline on page six of the metro section. No one gave half a shit when it was just black people shooting black people, but now that there's a more sympathetic victim, the mayor is promising action and the newspapers are sending their (white, entitled, tone-deaf) photographers to the funeral. Gee, I can't imagine why the community is a little upset that their misery is being exploited to sell copies of the Herald.
The Globe has done thoughtful
By anon
Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:13am
The Globe has done thoughtful pieces on the aftermath of some of these shootings.
sheesh...
By Sally
Sat, 10/09/2010 - 11:36pm
Yes, there have been hundreds of shootings and dozens of fatalities--it's gotten to be practically an everynight occurence....so why should we expect it to be "news?" By definition, if it happens this regularly, it is no longer unusual, noteworthy, newsworthy. And a reminder too--these victims were black people. A black two-year-old. When gangbangers and petty thugs shoot other gangbangers and petty thugs, no matter what color they are, people don't care as much. When a shooting takes the life of a "civilian"--a child, an innocent bystander, an honor student, a mother--we notice. Not so hard to understand. And while I cringe at the thought of cameras at a funeral, don't we want this story to be covered rather than dismissed or ignored?
where is sonny corleone when you need him?
By bostnkid
Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:03am
n/t
Seems like a well-intentioned
By anon
Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:14am
Seems like a well-intentioned journalism student who needs more seasoning and more editing.
Someone go yell at his journalism professor, who will then yell at the kid.
IMHO: America is a country
By anonymous hyde ...
Fri, 10/08/2010 - 4:38pm
IMHO:
America is a country controlled by middle class, college educated, suburban / small town hicks. Most simply do not understand urban areas / big cities. Anyplace with a population of over,say,50,000, (with a lot of tall buildings and apartments) is out of their comfort zone. The average American middle class college student's natural habitat is inside a window tinted SUV, cruising on a highway, or in the large parking lot of a mall or shopping center. Not Murderpan, surrounded by grieving 'minorities' and 'urban youth'.