Comments on: Newsweek’s Hit Piece on Murder Victim Larry King

By: Plea Deal for Larry King’s Murderer: The Inside Story « Unfinished Lives

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:09:37 +0000

[...] accounts of what young King wore to school, and his responses to McInerney’s bullying. Ramin Satoodeh, reporter for Newsweek, wrote a cover story on King that was devastating–likening the boy to a monstrous little [...]

By: Special Comment: Newsweek magazine and the Re-victimization of Larry King « Unfinished Lives

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:15:28 +0000

[...] a related Box Turtle Bulletin article which also calls Newsweek’s journalistic practices into [...]

By: Stacy

Stacy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:16:50 +0000

i just read the entire NEwsweek article right now and i am absolutely disgusted with how that author portrayed that boy..as if it matters how he dressed in school..and certainly had this boy gone the correct route and alerted authorities that he was “being basically stalked” by Larry, this situation would have ended a lot differently..the nerve of Setoodeh to imply in any way shape or form that Larry was at all to blame..

By: AJD

AJD — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:38:49 +0000

I typed Setoodeh’s name into Google and got the following article that he wrote for The Stanford Daily in 2004: “Homoeroticism returns to the big screen in ‘Starsky.’”

I haven’t seen the “Starsky & Hutch” movie, but that doesn’t look like a headline the copy editor wrote.

The title would generally seem innocent, but coupled with the content of Setoodeh’s Newsweek article, it raises suspicions.

http://www.stanforddaily.com/article/2004/3/5/homoeroticismReturnsToTheBigScreenInStarsky

By: Newsweek cover story about Larry King described as a “hit piece” « Unfinished Lives

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:34:32 +0000

[...] Lawrence “Larry” King invites readers to conclude King provoked his own murder. Kincaid’s responseto the Newsweek article says author Ramin Setoodeh employed biased language, anti-gay catch [...]

By: Offsprung > Mombian » Does Coverage of LGBT Youth Blame the Victim?

Offsprung > Mombian » Does Coverage of LGBT Youth Blame the Victim? — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:06:53 +0000

[...] Timothy Kincaid at Box Turtle Bulletin has even harsher words about the article and its author, whom he says has had other “awkward” moments when covering gay issues. Alex Blaze at Bilerico also says, “The level of dissection of Larry’s flamboyance and the lack of attention given to any of the other possible contributions to the shooting sends the message that Larry got what he deserved.” [...]

By: SharonB

SharonB — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:56:18 +0000

I agree! PLS send your critique to the letters section.

By: K.

K. — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:44:26 +0000

Absolutely disgusting! How did that make it past the editor?

By: AJD

AJD — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:18:00 +0000

The portrait I got from the article was of a disturbed, confused kid who used over-the-top flamboyance as a defense mechanism. I didn’t get the impression that the article was like a press release from AFA.

Still, Setoodeh failed to take into account that however inappropriate King’s behavior toward other boys might have been, he was a product of his environment. He grew up being mistreated and responded by lashing out. It reminds me of Malcolm X’s allegory of the wolf asking the sheep or the rapist asking the raped why the latter hates the former.

Most disturbing of all was the portrayal of his killer as some sort of victim. There’s a big difference between taunting kids who make your life difficult and retaliating by shooting someone. McInerney could easily have gone to authorities at the school to report what was going on and, should they have failed to ameliorate the problem, he could have taken it all the way to the school board and then sued the district if nothing was done.

Anyway, I just checked and confirmed that Newsweek has a letters section, so I’d suggest you guys take your bitch pills and start typing…

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:13:54 +0000

Timothy Kincaid wrote:

“I don’t know Ramin Setoodeh’s orientation or his personal tastes or biases.”

This might help:

http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2002/novdec/departments/studentvoice.html

The irony is enormous.