Nancy Grace is a moron piece of garbage so nothing she does surprises me. Somebody ought to torture her to death. I can’t believe anyone watches her show. I guess it’s a show for morons who have no life.
There is a big difference between most news people and Grace.
I think she looks more like Kirsten Dunst than Reese Witherspoon.
I iwsh I could dig up the age-progression pic that was done of her. I’d love to see how close they were. I think she still looks amazingly like she did as a child, except for her hair style and color.
As far as “how did that make you feel”, I don’t want to hear much about that. “How did you mentally cope”, I’d be interested in. Sort of like how Vietnam POWs had the mental fortitude to survive years of prison and toture.
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Something freaky happens to someone, people are interested in hearing about it. As was already mentioned, it’s human nature. I don’t care to hear any details about the sexual part. Hell, I don’t care to hear anything that Ms. Duggard doesn’t want to share. But, presumably she won’t be forced at gunpoint to give interviews/ write a book/sell the movie rights. Her story is sad and her captor is a grade a fucking scumbag but that doesn’t make her story any less interesting.
What makes you think she mentally coped? What does “metally coping” even mean? What would be an example of not mentally coping?
I don’t find anything interesting about it at all. Just horrific. There isn’t a single thing I want to know.
Now that I’m thinking about the situation, it’s not really right to complain about the media coverage or people’s interest.
People want to hear her story. Yeah, it’s prurient and disgusting, but listening to a story willingly given harms no one.
The media covers what the people want to hear. They’re meeting demand. As long as they do not coerce her, they’re merely providing a service to both her and the audience. How else is she going to earn money from telling her story? And so what if they make money by broadcasting her story? Do we want to only allow non-profits to be able to cover it?
She certainly has the right to tell her story. Let her earn some money from it, but that’s hard to do if points 1 and 2 are excoriated. What would we have her do instead? If you cut off her avenues for publicity, it’s only a small step to telling her to sit down and shut up. I don’t think any of us would want to cross that line.
Let her have her moment in the media spotlight if she so chooses. I’m utterly uninterested in the details, but there’s no harm in her doing it or the media covering it or viewers watching it.
The story can be told without talking about sex. My main question is - did she get to a point where she lost hope of ever getting out of that house?
If she agrees to an interview I am sure there will be rules about what she will talk about and what she won’t.
Why is everyone assuming that the only way she can make money is by prostituting her story in the media?
It’s not just prying about the rape (please don’t call it “sex”) that would be offensive. It’s every single bit of it. Who cares if she did or did not give up hope? That’s none of my business. None of her suffering is my business.It would be revolting to see it turned into a commodity.
I agree, and I’d avoided this thread up til now for that reason. I’d followed this story a little when it broke and I don’t want to know more about it than I already do. It’s just incredibly horrible. If she wants to talk to people about what she went through, that’s fine. Nobody should shut her up with her family, in therapy, on speaking tours or whatever, if that’s what she wants to do. But the idea that someone wants use the story of how she was kidnapped, raped and held captive for most of her life, along with two children, to sell advertising space is repulsive.
In the long run she can get a regular job but I think that’s not going to happen any time soon.
As I said above she and her kids need therapy and that’s not cheap. I’m not sure how she can pay for that now when she can’t get a job. I suppose somebody could offer her therapy for free, not sure how likely that would be.
Let Oprah pay for her therapy if she cares so much.
ETA I’m sure if someone wanted to start a fund for Jaycee Duggard and her children, it would succeed. I would be willing to contibute to it if it would allow her to get therapy and support herself in private without having to sell her trauma to media ghouls like Oprah.
I don’t think anyone is assuming that, but you’ve just poisoned that well with the term “prostituting”.
So stick to your own business then: it’s none of your business if she decides to be compensated for telling her story, it’s none of your business if the media covers that story, and it’s none of your business if anyone else pays attention.
Then you’d have no problem if the non-profit media covers the story? What makes an ad-supported media outlet worse than a donation-supported one?
Nobody asked me. There’s no practical way for me to avoid their headlines in the checkout stands. Almost half of it is due to their giving interviews and such, but I think that the media should respect their privacy unless they want the publicity.
Somebody is almost certain to write a book on this story. So her choice is let someone else tell the story and make money off her or she writes her own book. It’s not certain she writes a book but she has that option.
She could set up a charity for herself , not sure if that would work all that well. I don’t know if any other crime victims have tried that.
It’s profiting from someone’s misfortune in a way that I find disgusting. And I don’t think the details are very important.
I thought the initial post was distasteful - do you want to see PICTURES? Like she’s some zoo animal (I had forgotten her name until this thread).
You’d think this was the first sensational story some people in this thread had ever encountered. Terrible shit is happening every hour of every day. We’re surrounded by it and now it’s suddenly verboten to report it? If you’re not interested then turn away, but don’t get all self righteous and imply that everyone else is immoral or fucked up in the head because they find a very strange and tragic story interesting.
In Nancy Grace’s case, I’d want to hear all the details of her torture, including how it made her feel.
Most sensational stories do not involve non-celebrities who are victims of horrific crimes treated as if they were tabloid stars. I don’t especially revel in the details of the stars lives, but hey at least most of them are well paid and enjoy the publicity.
Why can’t they let them try to get on with their lives the best they can? Now that you mention it, I do think people who enjoy reading this sort of stuff are not quite as sensitive as those that realize it’s cheap exploitation.
It’s like playing out a suspense novel in your head, it can be enjoyable to read about the happy ending, but these are actual people, not plastic celebrities or criminals.
Is it wrong for me to like the movies Casino or Goodfellas? Both were based on true stories where people got killed. And they show the murders in graphic detail.