Lost Compassion
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“This story is being told in a very insensitive, judgemental, biased, non-journalistic or ethical, way. There’s palpable disgust by the host when touching on subjects ranging from the emotions of someone battling complex-grief and PTSD, to how this non-profit’s HQ is located in a crappy strip mall, and employees and clients alike eat off paper plates. What’s wrong with any of those things? I’m not going to breakdown all the ways this host is making it about her, and the paranoid musings being used with horror music to over-dramatize a watered down narrative. The fears about someone she barely knows “manipulating” (most journalists understand that’s part of the job), or act like he’s putting her in “danger” simply because she’s in close proximity (briefly) to a subject that’s in danger. The repetitious accusations about how it’s somehow the subject’s fault the FBI falsely accused the wrong man of being the serial killer who took his daughter YEARS AGO (however, that man’s NOT “innocent” like the host states — his repeated convictions of heinous DOMESTIC VIOLENCE are most likely why he took his life when he did). This is a cheap way to create drama and suspense at the cost of real human beings who clearly chose to be unfiltered with the host. PTSD often causes people to lack a filter, overshare personal stuff, lack of impulse control, and have trouble with executive function in the brain. Being vulnerable and impulsive is not the same has trusting someone.
Journalists need to stop inserting themselves and their personal opinions into investigative podcasts. Facts, facts, facts. This isn’t about the host — it’s about the victims. And yes, the subject of this podcast IS a victim. As a person whose battled CPTSD since my late-20s & complex-grief since my best friend was murdered; the lack of compassion and cruelty with which this subject matter is being handled on this podcast has brought me to tears repeatedly, and forced me to pause mid-episode, repeatedly each episode. Please, fix the tone before releasing the last 2 episodes. It’s fine the host formed personal opinions on her subject, and has chosen not to be objective because of it — but she don’t have to further stigmatize the rest of us living this. We either channel our trauma outward and into a project that makes us feel a little less powerless and maybe like we can turn our suffering into something good for society; or we fall into a paralyzed dissociated state we cannot climb out of because nobody stays when the cliff notes fluffy version of our stories brings nothing but dread to those who feel obligated to “listen.” They can’t handle listening — but we have to LIVE it. They’re real. Sorry they’re too “exhausting” for this emotion-phobic society to sit thru, because if they just listened to us one time, we wouldn’t be suffering in silence and shame.
The attempt at the vocal cadence of This American Life, but with an extremely patronizing tone, is very hard to listen to. Please reconsider delivery, because it comes off condescending, and in some of the more serious parts; mean.
Compassion matters. Don’t judge people who are grieving and trying to get justice for themselves and others when the police fail. The subject’s not even a “vigilante” — he owns a search and rescue non-profit where trauma is par for the course in order to help loved ones find the missing.”
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