ceci n'est pas un update

[mamajoan]

Still exhausted. Still not getting adequate sleep. Still don't have time to do a real update. Survived yesterday. Did not manage to sleep during Isaac's naptime.

Relieved to be back at work today. Weather clearing up a bit. Hope all the snow melts before it gets cold again.

A big news item around here is the discovery Sunday night of a woman and her 9-month-old baby daughter found shot dead in their home, in a little town west of Boston that hasn't had a homicide in over ten years. The husband is missing and it's all very mysterious and the local news people are hyping it all up. I noticed this morning on boston.com that right underneath the link to the actual story was a link to the family's website. I clicked on it, and it's your typical website of a youngish couple with baby: cheery text telling you how the baby is learning to crawl and eat with a fork, here are some pictures from Christmas, please feel free to email us and say hi!

I can't help feeling that it's stretching the boundaries of good taste, not to mention journalistic integrity, to link to that from the news item. Is it just me, or is this kind of ghoulish? *shudder*

Comments

[kenboy.livejournal.com]

Hmm.

It's HORRIBLE taste, and yet, every single time I read a news article where someone with a Livejournal or whatever has committed a murder or whatever, I try to track it down, and am often annoyed that it's not just linked in the story.

Looks like I want it both ways.

[velcroswench.livejournal.com]

That story has made a big splash over here as the husband is British.