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The New York Post faced heavy criticism in the media industry, Thursday, for publishing a report on the sexual fetishes of a British woman who was murdered by a man who then placed her body in a suitcase and buried her in the woods.
The article, under the headline, “Killed backpacker Grace Millane was into choking, BDSM: court evidence,” was almost entirely about the private sexual fetishes of the victim, with detailed statements from others she had spoken to online.
Killed backpacker Grace Millane was into choking, BDSM: court evidence https://t.co/psNCyxuYAm pic.twitter.com/QLxZRYp4uG
— New York Post (@nypost) November 20, 2019
Journalists and others responded to the report, which received over 1,500 replies on Twitter against just over 180 likes, with disgust.
One reply from Jeva Lange, a critic for The Week, received over 133,000 likes and read, “I don’t know who needs to hear this but a woman being into choking and BDSM in no way explains why she was murdered.”
I don’t know who needs to hear this but a woman being into choking and BDSM in no way explains why she was murdered https://t.co/wJGRczcuyz
— Jeva Lange (@Jee_vuh) November 20, 2019
This is disgusting framing by the Post https://t.co/RRnBQQcFKS
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) November 21, 2019
Nobody’s kink is being murdered. Shut up https://t.co/eZWPA6YUuU
— Deirdre (@figgled) November 21, 2019
If I get murdered please don’t publicize my fetishes
— Charles Bramesco (@intothecrevasse) November 20, 2019
Shame on you, you amoral, sensationalist, clickbaiting hacks.
— Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly) November 21, 2019
Shame on you @nypost https://t.co/73297GapHt
— Lexi Alexander (@Lexialex) 21 November 2019
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