So the NY Post prints a story in which we learn Devlin likes computer games and poker, and this is supposed to have the potential for hindering the case? I don’t get it.

As for the larger issue of whether or not the NY Post and local correspondent should be held accountable for using deceit to gain access to Devlin, I think the answer is a resounding no. Why? For every one person you can find that can name three heads of state in Europe, I’ll find you five who can recite, in great detail, the entire chronology of the John Mark Karr debacle. Find me a person who can intelligently discuss the fundamental differences between the the Islamic beliefs of Sunni and Shi’a, and I’ll give you ten more who can talk at great length about that thing that Paris Hilton did the other night. In a society where news isn’t news without heaping helpings of voyeurism and sensationalism, blaming the media for using deception to get such ground-breaking stories as that gathered by the NY Post is a bit disingenuous, especially considering that they’re just giving us what we’ve long established that we want.

I think the more interesting topic of discussion is whether there is any intersection between the Venn diagram circles representing both Competence and the Franklin County jail staff.

So the post disgrace got scooped and is now upset. So what. I dont buy for a second that any number or post disgrace “reporters” would not have done the same damn thing if they had thought of it. Ethics in journalism is like ethics in politics, rare. Is the post disgrace outraged when national security secrets are leaked to the press and printed? No, their outrage is reserved for getting scooped.

I didn’t see anything in the interview which would jeopardize either case. I am curious what the general feeling is regarding her actions though.

Is this creative initiative, or an integrity issue.

Personally, I would imagine just about any beat reporter would have jumped at the chance to interview this guy first.

Its a little spooky, someone could have snuck in there in done some harm, not good with the pending trial. The Frankilin Co jail employees should be held accountable. I agree with ted, any reporter would have loved to get that story and would have tried, this one just got busted being unethical. Hey, she is still a student after all.

The media always uses deceipt - it is the nature of the beast!

I read a good book over the weekend called “World War Z”. It is a dystopic story concerning a virus that turns honest humans into Republicans, and they eventually destroy most of the known world!

What I find most interesting about this story is the pure fact that once again the fault lies at someone else’s feet. Devlin’s lawyers know that their client doesn’t stand a chance of being acquited of this heinous crime because he was caught with a smoking gun. Of course I have no doubt they will portray him as the victim..i.e..he was adopted, didn’t feel loved, was rejected by society blah, blah, blah. I am sick to death of our society making excuses for their actions and expecting everyone else to feel sorry for them. Yes, Franklin County allowed an unauthorized visitor but their idiot client could have let the authorities know and refused to speak to her. His own family can’t put aside their disgust to visit him so what does that tell you? If anything the article helped to portray him as a real person but it certainly didn’t change my opinion of his disgusting actions. I just find it amusing that he is miserable because he can’t play his video games..Boo Hoo. The Akers’ misery of losing their son takes my sympathy vote not the sorrows of a 6ft 4 bully who is whining that he is bored. Ugh.

No, but the Post here isn’t exactly doing either side of the case any service by inciting people to continue to spew speculation about what may or may not have happened.

It’s been a week; the kids are found, and in that week nothing new has come to light beyond the Franklin County Jail’s inability to keep reporters out. Can we let the sensationalism dies down and allow police and investigators to just do their job?

I bet the reporter was HOT and she charmed all the guys in charge and she got her way. I don’t care if she interviewed the animal or what his hobbies are other than abducting kids. The reportinhg any of the media does is half truths at best anyway, no matter who tells the story. Case in point the 3 different stories on who spotted the NISSAN pickup: 1) the first story where the resident in the apartment complex pointed out to the police that arrived on a completly differant issue (the story I believe) 2) the story where the KIRKWOOD officers where there on a unrelated case and they spotted the truck ( the politicly correct story that the media likes) and 3) the IMO’S PIZZA guy who said he called police to check out. (CYA). When the story first broke the media interviewd the apartment resident who alerted police who where already on the parking lot and we have not heard from him since and the media cleaned up the story to make the police heroes. The only one I have heard or read that has challenged this story is J.C CORCARAN on K-HIT’s. Oh and by the way J.C’s interview with the KIRKWOOD officer was cancelled?????.. The bottom line I don’t trust the media and they should be considered for entertainment purposes only.

re chris (8) You know you don’t listen to KHTS….I think you are lying again.

Devlin’s lawyers are using this as an excuse to get their client moved to the STL county jail because their law offices are 2 blocks away and they won’t have to drive to Franklin county anymore.