I don't understand what the problem with this story is... I mean, news is news. He was/is a furry. This is a furry news website. I found the article interesting at least- it's just a news article.
Every group or fandom is going to have strange members/incidents. It doesn't make any sense to ignore them. It'd be like news stations in foreign countries refusing to report on any crime story, so their neighboring countries won't get a bad impression- or the general media not reporting any news of violence in the off chance that aliens popped by, watched our news, and decided they didn't like what they saw. News websites are meant to cover -the news-, and that means the good and bad.
It was reported because the accused offender was a furry. That makes it furry news. So what's the big deal? The person/event in the story may be distasteful, but that doesn't mean it isn't news. I'd much rather have non furries see general and open discussion of this and various other news articles, be they crime reports, or coverage of social events, or new furry book reviews- whatever it is.
It seems like it's far more damaging to our community to have people up in arms about the news article itself rather than its contents.
I don't understand what the problem with this story is... I mean, news is news. He was/is a furry. This is a furry news website. I found the article interesting at least- it's just a news article.
Every group or fandom is going to have strange members/incidents. It doesn't make any sense to ignore them. It'd be like news stations in foreign countries refusing to report on any crime story, so their neighboring countries won't get a bad impression- or the general media not reporting any news of violence in the off chance that aliens popped by, watched our news, and decided they didn't like what they saw. News websites are meant to cover -the news-, and that means the good and bad.
It was reported because the accused offender was a furry. That makes it furry news. So what's the big deal? The person/event in the story may be distasteful, but that doesn't mean it isn't news. I'd much rather have non furries see general and open discussion of this and various other news articles, be they crime reports, or coverage of social events, or new furry book reviews- whatever it is.
It seems like it's far more damaging to our community to have people up in arms about the news article itself rather than its contents.