Re:The Death of Patient Zero
by rquantz on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @09:07PM
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I agree that maybe a more objective angle would have conveyed the information a little better. However, your comment is in poor taste. This is a real person they're talking about, someone who suffered and died. Not a character in a movie.
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... and the author has failed to adequately communicate that person's story.
I didn't say a thing about the subject of the piece. Is it poor taste to criticize everything associated remotely with something tragic? What about poorly done WWII documentaries? Can I criticize them?
Just saying Nicholas Sparks probably shouldn't be writing news articles.
You're welcome to criticize it. But comparisons to The Lord of the Rings, of all things, were tone deaf. This is not some epic fantasy for your amusement.
comment is in poor taste. This is a real person they're talking about, someone who suffered and died. Not a character in a movie.
I agree that there's poor taste, but I think the poor taste is in writing about a person as if they were a character in a movie, not in pointing out that horrific writing style.