Leave the Kids Out of It

[Ya Sam]

By  J. Peder Zane

from http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/

"File this under damned if you do, damned if you don't. For fear of 
publicizing a loathsome act, I hesitate to mention the disgraceful little 
posting from Radar Online this week, featuring the Facebook.com page of 
Thomas Pynchon's 15-year-old son. This pointless move is such a soulless, 
pathetic invasion of a boy's privacy that I believe somebody has to say: 
Shame on you! Take it down now! Journalists do a lot of unsavory things. I 
don't think we have an absolute responsibility to respect Thomas Pynchon's 
privacy. If some photographer wants to stake out the recluse's home and snap 
a photo, such is the way of the world — and, frankly, I'd be grateful for 
the chance to eye the great man's map. But as the Mark Foley scandal reminds 
us, children are off-limits. They are not in the game. This basic fact could 
not have eluded the editors at Radar — instead, it seems, they just don't 
care. Let's hope no one starts posting items about their kids."

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