Bostonist: No Junk(ies) in the Park, Please

ed

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:06:20 -0500

also there is nothing as fun or easy as judging whether someone acted correctly or not while safely tapping away on a keyboard far from the action at hand .

joel

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:14:02 -0500

After thinking about it for a while I really can't fault the photographer for anything they did. The Herald is out there to shock and tittilate and all that crap ... so I shouldn't be surprised. I think it's the combination of all the factors at play that sort of worked up my ire. Between the fact that this was actually happening, a photog. snapping away at what's going on, and the herald posting an entire "photo gallery" exploiting what happened ... it sort of made me sick. the result, to me, was greater than the sum of its parts.

ed

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:09:16 -0500

the dude probably would have died horribly one way or another. i feel bad for his family if this is the way they have to find out about his death.

jp

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:49:26 -0500

The photographer's conduct doesn't bother me. Heck, you can walk through the Common most evenings and see the same thing. Does every person who witnesses someone shooting up have an obligation to intervene on the off chance the junkie will die right there? As for the Herald, it doesn't shock me that they would choose to run those photos -- it is what their readers apparently want from that awful rag.