JeremyBarrick

Anne Hull,a journalist for The Washington Post, had been a Pullitzer Prize finalist six times and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. Reconstructed a crime committed by a teenager who lived in the projects pulled a gun to a policewoman's head and shot her. I feel that what Hull did was interesting but a little embarrassing. Just to get attention or yet another award, Hull exposed this young man. A nobody becomes a somebody from a little exposure, too much will get you burnt. I think this story compares to The Oprah Winfrey Show, Oprah sometimes takes a tragedy, exposes it, and then turns in into a cry for help. Leave these poor people alone, let them deal with this on their own, not the publics. If you want publicity, do it on your own time! I felt no different about this teenager after reading what Hull wrote, it did not affect me. I am not one for sympathy unless it deals with animal cruelty.