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Heath Ledger - the grieving thread
moremojo:
I think there can certainly be an impulse for a cover-up for any number of reasons; as to whether a cover-up would actually take place is another issue.
The Ledger family, in their initial statements ruling out suicide, struck me as exhibiting an impulse to not even countenance that possibility out of the shame and stigma that still accrue to that cause of death. I mean, could they really, truly know that there was no possible way that suicide was the cause? But I doubt that their feelings would prevent the ruling of suicide as the cause, should the authorities truly come to that conclusion (I admit that no initial findings are pointing to that direction).
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 24, 2008, 12:49:38 pm --- in hopes you'd get bored or tired and move on.
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:laugh: Fat chance of that! Nobody's going to get bored and move on from this story just because the bureaucrats stall on the files. That will just pique their interest.
--- Quote --- I just don't see some bored civil servant counter clerk, whose vested interest is covering his ass with his supervisors, not serving the public, handing records like these over to you just because you tell him--or her--you have a right to see public records--which you do. I've dealt with people like that in a former job.
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Sorry, I don't mean to be argumentative ::), but I dealt with people like that all the time when I was a newspaper reporter. I wasn't a full-time cops reporter, but as a general-assignment reporter I often filled in at the police station or courthouse. The desk clerks are very used to dealing with reporters. If they know you, they hand over the files when they see you coming, often making amiable small talk while doing so. Admittedly, many of the journalists in this case would be strangers. But whoever is on this story at, for example, the New York Times (probably a handful of people, in that case) is likely a familiar face to them. Everybody involved, from the chief of police down to the counter clerks, knows the drill. I'm guessing that in this case they might even make copies of the report and hand them out en masse at press conferences just to reduce traffic in the office.
As some random member of the public, you'd have just as much right as a reporter does to see the records. But admittedly, it might be more of a hassle.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on January 24, 2008, 01:08:19 pm ---Sorry, I don't mean to be argumentative ::).
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Perish the thought. ;D
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 24, 2008, 01:11:29 pm ---Perish the thought. ;D
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:laugh: :-*
It's fun to be able to use the laughing smiley again, at least occasionally.
Meryl:
I personally don't think Heath was suicidal, or that he was overdosing on illegal drugs, but I'm afraid it's already in the public consciousness that one or both of those things was the case. Thanks to inaccurate, sensationlized reports, the impression has already been delivered. Just an hour ago, the women on "The View" were discussing it, and one of them repeated the inaccurate report of pills being strewn around and another spoke of him as if he had indeed taken illegal drugs. Thankfully, Whoopi Goldberg finished the discussion by saying she was not about to believe anything until all the reports were in.
Just now on the local news they showed the Frank Campbell Funeral Home on the Upper East Side. A crowd of cameramen and reporters were there, just waiting for family or friends to appear so they could get that money picture for today's news. It was reported that Heath's mother has flown in from Australia to accompany his body back to Perth.
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