Comments on: BREAKING–Incident at Radio Perfecto

By: another alum

another alum — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:55:04 +0000

I’m not defending it on the grounds that it’s not in a text book. I’m just talking about it on the same criteria that YOU introduced. You stated Columbia should focus admissions more on grades. What are grades a reflection of if not what you’re told in high school?

And even if you do read the paper, you may not know that they can print pictures of corpses. I read the WaPo and NYT fairly often, (not counting the other sites like CNN, MSNBC, etc) and I can’t remember the last time I saw them print a picture of a corpse of the average person on the street. I have seen them with regard to the war but not in other contexts.

By: Curious

Curious — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:34:42 +0000

If that’s really the case then I guess I’m more naive then I thought. I’m one of those small town white girls that doesn’t think racism occurs. I guess I thought a murder was a murder and we’d see a tv interview with the victim’s crying mother no matter their race.

By: Hokay

Hokay — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:54:07 +0000

But I think that even if a Hispanic Columbia student had been shot, it would have been a national scandal.

By: I think

I think — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:36:47 +0000

that this entire situation is ignored on racial lines. Had it been a white person who was shot, the entire story would change. Had it been a columbia student, we would have a national scandal on our hands, especially if the student was white. Furthermore, look at the nypost article; the headline mentions columbia, and it implies that it happened in a white neighborhood. Had this occurred down the street in the real harlem, we wouldn’t see anything in the news. It isn’t news until a white person is involved. Example from family guy:

Reporters: what happened?

Cop: We have news that the deceased is named Becky Gunderson.

Reports: [responding anxiously]

Cop: Oh wait, sorry the name is Becky Gutierrez

Reporters: That’s not news.

By: Curious

Curious — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:36:47 +0000

I live right around the block from Radio Perfecto and I heard about it when I was passing by Sunday morning. I just moved to the area so I;m not used to this type of stuff happening. However what confuses me is that I haven’t seen anything on the television news or any other media site outside of nypost.com. Does this type of stuff happen so much that they don’t always report it? I’ve been watching the news and I just keep hearing about attempted murders in new jersey and fires where no one was hurt. Why don’t they want to inform people about this incident? This website has been the most informative. I mean I didn’t even get that email from columbia- just a notice on our building door. And now there is more police and crime tape across the street. Am I just supposed to get use to this?

By: also

also — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:20:14 +0000

If you’re gonna sling around the ignorance mud, you might want to educate yourself on the difference between its and it’s. I’m just saying.

By: damn

damn — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:18:07 +0000

You say lack of common sense, I say someone who was raised in our newly PC world. Most domestic newspapers nowadays will not print cadaver pictures, lest children see it and get scarred for life. This is the same society that has Cookie Monster saying cookies are just a sometimes food and eating carrot sticks, because our delicate children will get fat if they see such a bad role model. So no, I wouldn’t expect an 18-20-year-old to know that something like this is legal, because they weren’t raised in the more
anything goes’ world that slightly older (23+) people were raised in. When it comes to PC-mania, a few childhood years makes a huge difference.

By: Alum

Alum — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:13:49 +0000

The question wasn’t as dumb as you think. There are laws against publishing photos of combat casualties and of the caskets of dead soldiers (the foermer is required by treaty, but the latter has no such justification) and someone who has not studied law can easily be uncertain of the scope of these rules.

Also, the person who asked may not be a Columbia student. Other people use this site too.

By: alumnus

alumnus — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:55:05 +0000

damn right its dumb to ask dumb questions. Its just this kind of defense that shows me how far columbia has to go in attracting bright students to compete with HPY. You defend ignorance and lack of common sense on the grounds that it was not enumerated in your high school text book. good riddance, somebody send you to nyu. A Columbia education is wasted on you.

By: racism

racism — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:54:03 +0000

no offense, but it’s not dumb to ASK questions, it’s just dumb to ask questions that prove that you’re dumb. i mean, you don’t have to study the legal rights of newspapers to know that they can print pictures of cadavers. you just have to read one, every now and then. that’s like, ALL they do.

By: another alum

another alum — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:29:54 +0000

it’s dumb for someone to ask if something is illegal? I think it’s a fair question if you’ve never studied the issue, and I hardly think we can consider this the type of thing people teach in high school. If anyone is dumb, it’s you for making that statement

By: patriot

patriot — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:29:57 +0000

all because some rich plantation owners were too fucking lazy to pick their own god damn cotton.

By: alumnus

alumnus — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:04:35 +0000

God, some of you posting are real dumb. Is it “illegal” to have pictures of dead bodies in newspapers??!!! Please, Columbia, start basing admissions more on grades and test scores

By: swarm

swarm — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:33:14 +0000

thank you for proving my point. the point isn’t to break down language, analyze syntax or statistics. the point is to try to step out of your intellectual/analytical/fact-oriented tendancies to really think about what actually happened – whether it happened “within the walls of our community” or not – i did not necessarily mean it in the “kumbaya” community type of way. you don’t need to recognize the fact that the incident happened inside or outside of our community to recognize the fact that it was tragic. I was merely trying to point out how disgusted I am with the fact that people are using this situation as an excuse to cite unreliable statistics and make faulty analyses, instead of thinking about how sad this situation is.

By: i just emailed

i just emailed — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:28:35 +0000

the ny post.. they removed the picture. thank god