My daughter died at Sandy Hook. Megyn Kelly's interview with Alex Jones is an insult.
By Nelba L. Márquez-Greene June 16 at 7:49 PM
< Nelba L. Márquez-Greene is the founder and executive director of the Ana Grace Project. >
Last Sunday, I tweeted about Megyn Kellys decision to interview Alex Jones for her NBC show: Hey @Megynkelly, let me know if you want to give his victims equal air time. Promoting this fool is bad news. Do not encourage his abuse. On Monday, after my tweet went viral, I woke to a firestorm. Why did I think it is a bad idea for mainstream media to give voice to deniers of tragedy? I will tell you why.
I am writing this while sitting in a Starbucks in Newtown, Conn., on the last day of school, anticipating the return of one child when I should be getting back two. My daughter, Ana Grace, was killed in the Sandy Hook shooting of December 2012. She will always be 6 years old. She will never give another Fathers Day present to my husband, Jimmy. I wish her death were only a hoax.
Deniers of tragedy cause unfathomable pain to families who have experienced catastrophic and public losses. It disrupts the grief process, which is unending. Sometimes, it threatens their physical health and safety. I cannot begin to describe the pain of experiencing death threats and harassment on top of mourning the loss of a beloved family member. Five years after the Sandy Hook shooting, we receive emails weekly suggesting that our daughter did not die. Or that President Barack Obama was behind her death.
Deniers of tragedy also threaten the health and wellness of thousands of vulnerable and disconnected people in our country who seek a why to events that can never clearly have one. The government didnt stage Newtown, and I am not a crisis actor. But yes, things just dont add up about Sandy Hook. What doesnt add up is that there still has been no meaningful legislative response to help curb this kind of violence. And that we dont run our mental-health and other community programs nearly as well as we should.
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Squinch
(51,007 posts)interview, one on CBS and the other on ABC.
Freedomofspeech
(4,228 posts)Horrible snakes like Alex Jones and the people who buy into his lies, exist.
janterry
(4,429 posts)I think this is a terrible mistake. Worse, I think it's not journalism.
I suppose you could interview him in a story about people who perpetuate hoaxes. Or a story about why Americans are attached to hoaxes. But to give him time and space to promote/rationalize himself?
Nah. This just sucks.
mn9driver
(4,428 posts)And that is if she takes him apart and hands him his ass. If that doesn't happen, then it should not be aired.
riversedge
(70,299 posts)the shootings time after time. Jones is one reason--a big reason for reliving the horror.