It’s been painful, hearing about, and watching the story of, Jennifer Laude’s murder unfold. It is sad enough that there is a murder of any person in the hands of Americans brought onto these shores on “legal business.” But to hear the Philippine President speak of it like it’s a run-of-the-mill death, like it happened in a vacuum, like there is no American Marine as who is the prime suspect, is the height of insensitivity.
Of course it’s also because media is so uncritical in the questions it asks of the President, that he is actually allowed the time and mileage to display his lack of compassion for Jennifer.
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