August 30, 2007 by Walter Schneider.

During the last little while, a considerable number of years, decades, in fact, murder-suicides by women were rarely reported (for one thing, the female suicide part of those incidents was most often a token attempt), and female-perpetrated murders were, if ever, shown with a couple or so paragraphs on the back pages in our newspapers. That, as also shown in the article indicated here, has seen a dramatic reversal during the past few days.

“Some suicides require coverage [by implication, others do not - F4L], but always with sensitivity.” So says Jim Slusher, Daily Herald Columnist. He states in the conclusion of his article:

Any violent or unexpected death is a terrible thing, and must be carefully reported. Reporting on murder does not necessarily lead to more murder; reporting on suicide might lead to more suicide. With that in mind, we take care — and sometimes should take still more — to ensure that our reporting is not just sensitive to victims and their families, but also will not give ideas or inspiration to troubled people who may be entirely unrelated….(Full Story)

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Comment by F4L: Right! Therefore, in general and universally, the media report carefully on male-perpetrated murders and violence (on the front pages) and sweep female-perpetrated murders and violence under the rug.

However, when it comes to reporting suicides, the priorities are reversed, female ones make the front pages and males ones are swept under the carpet.

Ostensibly, that makes for balanced reporting that is “not just sensitive to victims and their families, but also will not give ideas or inspiration to troubled people who may be entirely unrelated.” In reality such reporting will most certainly have the required politically-correct spin. It bashes men and makes women’s suffering (but not female crimes) a thing to behold.

Believe it or not, but the practice described by Jim Slusher, because it so enormously wide-spread in the media, is clear and unadulterated censorship.

Don’t trust the media to give you the truth, all of the truth and nothing but the truth. (See also a description of the role of news-wire services in all of that.)

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August 30, 2007 by Walter Schneider.

News from Sweden

The foundation Daddy-Child (Pappa-Barn) says that The Father Rights Group “PappaRättsGruppen” is extremist.

Last Friday, The Father Rights Group from Växjö proclaimed a manifesto outside the lower court of Växjö. They had plaques stating that they are “sperm machines”.

- You can´t fight extremists with extreme methods, says Kim Möller, co-ordinater for south of Sweden in the foundation Pappa-Barn (Daddy-Child).

I get scared when I visit their homepage.  Their way to success is to co-operate with women’s shelters.

PappaRättsGruppen tend to focus on dads and not on children, says Kim.

The statements above will be published in the newspaper Växjöbladet-Kronobergaren (VK) - printed in 30,000 copies on Friday. The paper is only published on Fridays.

Please, for the sake of God - anyone at all, comment on the territorial pissing contests by Swedish “father groups”!

All the best,

Ulf Andersson,
Founder of and Spokesman for PappaRättsGruppen
http://www.dads-r-us.org

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August 30, 2007 by Walter Schneider.

Chicago Sun-Times

Deadly fight over girl
CRYSTAL LAKE | Mom apparently kills 7-year-old, walks in front of train

August 30, 2007
BY DAN ROZEK AND LISA DONOVAN Staff Reporters/drozek@suntimes.com ldonovan@suntimes.com

A young Crystal Lake mother apparently suffocated her 7-year-old daughter, then killed herself by stepping in front of a speeding Metra train, McHenry County authorities said Wednesday.

The deaths happened Tuesday in the midst of a legal fight 28-year-old Magdalene Kamysz was waging over the daughter police suspect she killed….(Full Story)

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August 30, 2007 by Walter Schneider.

Chicago Tribune, 27 August 2007

Two weeks after his children and wife were killed in a Naperville fire, Anand Tiwari exists somewhere between the past, present

By Sara Olkon, Tribune staff reporter

For Anand Tiwari, time stopped on Aug. 11.

That Saturday afternoon, police would later tell him, his wife murdered their two young children and killed herself by igniting a fire that engulfed the three in flames inside the family’s Naperville home. (Full Story)
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Note by F4L: Apparently it does not happen very often that a mother kills her children and then herself.  More often it happens that the mother appears to pretend to have made an unsuccessful suicide attempt after she killed her children.  Still, I wonder how many such stories we never hear about because they hardly ever make it into the national wire services? The circumstances of that are described in the following article:

February 28, 2000, p. 36
More deadly than the male: Media hide the fact women are far likelier to kill their children than are men

by Walter H. Schneider and Candis Mclean

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August 30, 2007 by Walter Schneider.

Strauss called police on spouse in 2005; she reported threats

By Christine Reid (Contact)
Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Homicide suspect Alfred Michael Strauss listens during his bond hearing Tuesday at the Boulder County Jail.

A Boulder man arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing his former wife Monday told police he was acting in self defense.

Alfred Michael Strauss, 45, is facing a possible charge of first-degree murder in the slaying of 36-year-old Laura Swan, who went by the name Laura Strauss when the two were married.

In 2005, Strauss called police to report Swan was trying to provoke a fight while they were going through a divorce. Swan reported then that her husband had threatened to kill her…. (Full Story)

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August 30, 2007 by Walter Schneider.

The Associated Press, Posted August 29, 2007

WAUSAU — A 31-year-old man fatally stabbed his 25-year-old wife and hours later killed himself with a 12-inch ceremonial knife as he fled from a sheriff’s deputy, police said today. (Full Story)

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August 30, 2007 by Walter Schneider.

Two young girls in Elkhart County said goodbye Tuesday to their mother and father.

Police say their mother, 33 year-old Karla Fernandez, was shot and killed by their father, 31 year-old Omar Fernandez, who later shot himself in the head….(Full Story)
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Notice that the story is by the YWCA and that the views of the fathers are not mentioned, namely: “Newscenter 16 had a chance to talk to some of Karla’s friends both on the scene and over the phone.” Objective reporting would have included the results of talking to some of Omar’s friends, right?

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