Sitting Back and Taking A Long, Hard Look At It All...

Since July of last year, many have been focused on the Roseboro case and the pending trial.
Forum posts and blog entries have gone through the roof. People on the street are still talking about it any and every chance they get.
It's been a source of sick entertainment for some, and for others it's just filled a void in their own lives. When the trial is history, they'll move on to the next hot topic.
In the midst of all the attention, posting and hoopla about this case, there has been an air of surreality to it all.
People meeting for lunch and toasting Mike Roseboro on his birthday.
A pool on the birth date of the new baby.
Some of it isn't just in poor taste, it's pathological.

But now, the baby has been born.
The trial is scheduled for July 17, 2009.
There is a sense of hard, cold reality that has landed on all of this.
Not until the trial will we know what the prosecution has in store. Only then will we learn what the defense claims are.
But right now, there is a baby and two little girls who need to adapt to the swirling changes in their lives.
There are children that are still without their mother and father.
Maybe it's the Mom in me but I believe that in the best interest of the Funk/Rudy children, they all need to be left alone. And that includes Angie.
Please do not mistake my words for any change in my opinions of her and her choices or actions.
I just am dumbfounded and sickened that anyone would call her while she was still in the hospital to talk to her about anything related to the case or her new baby.
I see that as a line that never should have been crossed.
There is nothing that needed to be said, no questions that needed to be asked that were important enough to violate her privacy while still in the hospital. That was just too much.
Like a pirhana feeding on fresh meat...that's all it is.
If being a journalist is all about disseminating true information to the masses and bringing issues to the light of day, aren't there ethics involved?
And even if there were no journalistic ethics, what of the ethics and morals of just being a person. Or of being a Mom?
Calling Angie Funk in that hospital was inexcusable.
I guess it's just a case of needing so badly to get the scoop, at all costs....

Ask her anything you like after she and that child have settled in and the girls have some time to adapt to yet another upheaval in their lives.
Use some good judgment and just try doing the right thing.
And if not, I'm sure Ms. Rothermel will do it for you.