Duke official charged in child sex case

Let's just tell the story as it happened.

No explaining necessary. Quit worrying about offending every Tom, Dick and Larry that's out there in the world.
Tell the friggin' story, dammit!

 

Not revelant in the least bit, unless the person was at the forefront of lobbying for making it easier for same-sex couples to adopt or somesuch.

 

The 'important information' isn't that the child was adopted by a homosexual couple. The issue is that the child was adopted by a demented pedophile.

But since you happen to know that the couple was gay, it must have been reported somewhere, so what's your problem with this?

 

Do you really think it's not relevant to the story, or are you just reacting to the fact that Carlton is the one who raised the point?

 

Not one bit relevant.

 

Bingo. If it were a skinhead couple or a polygamist couple it would be relevant. It is newsworthy because it is not the norm. Most adoptions are not interracial, nor are they to homosexual couples. Maybe someone else should have brought this up so Dooley could agree with it.

 

It's relevant if you're reporting that someone else thinks it's relevant. ie, protest groups are now demanding the repeal of laws allowing homosexual adoption...the scumbag's brother says he warned adoption facilitators that his brother had a history of homosexual activity with young boys....

Otherwise, what are you writing? 'The adoptive father, an alleged homosexual...' ?

And btw, polygamy is illegal and skinheads are a defined hate group. Good luck putting homosexuals in that category. Which is no doubt why Carlton raised this issue in the first place. Defining for the rest of us what is 'not the norm.'

 

Huh? I wouldn't fall for that logical fallacy, and anyway, you don't work me up into nearly enough of a lather for me to care what side you took.

 

I love teh gays and little black children. It's still irrelevant information. A fuckup tried to sell his kid for sex. Adopted, gay, straight, natural born, bought on the black market...how the kid got there isn't the issue (unless there was a history of the guy selling other children for sex).

Not. Relevant. At. All.

 

Can we please see Carton's sliding scale of "not the norm" couples, complete with notation of the point on the spectrum where they become "newsworthy"? Does a gay white couple trump a hetero interracial couple? If so, would the less newsworthy couple become more so if one of them also used a chair?

Imagine the permutations.

 

It is mathematically not the norm, so not what people would assume as the default (which is why the question about whether a reporter should note that it's a heterosexual adoption is silly). Honestly, if it was a single parent adoption, I think that should be mentioned as well - not to cast aspertions on Murphy Browns, but to accurately paint a picture in a case where people naturally (and appropriately) assume something that is inaccurate.

 

Making assumptions is your issue, not the reporter's, tho Shockley loves your logic.