Media_And_Rape_Victims

Media And Rape Victims The names of rape victims traditionally have been withheld by the news media, in order to protect them. Yet, many people question whether this special treatment actually does rape victims wrong: In the sense that they are separating them from other victims of violent crimes. I strongly believe that it’s up to the individual victim to decide weather or not they want their name and picture announced and published on the news. There are many victims that chose not to be reminded of the nightmare they went through. However, there are victims that want to express their brutal attacks. In my opinion, I personally wouldn’t want my picture or name announced as a rape victim, for the fact of being judged before being known. Rape victims continue to be the best-kept secrets in the nation’s newsrooms. Since withholding rape victim names is so widely accepted, if the mistake is made of naming the victim, they simply apologize for their error and find themselves justifying their actions to other news organizations as well as the audience. The decision not to print rape victims’ names is a matter of sense and sensibility. I think it’s common sense that victims, rape, being, victim, names, society, rapes, personally, people, news, name, media, feel, wrong, women, time, sense, rapists, raped, picture, out, opinion, occur, needs, need, matter, kept, judged, fault, been, announced, weather