Sometimes the brilliance of The New York Times reporting is staggering. In an article today about four prostitutes who were brutally murdered in Atlantic City two weeks ago was this gem:
"What has emerged in the days since the bodies were discovered in a spongy strip of land between the Black Horse Pike and the Atlantic City Expressway is that each of the four women came to Atlantic City to escape something: abusive relationships, relatives who objected to their drug habits, or street life in other cities considered to be more dangerous."
I'm not even sure where to begin with this one folks. Top reporters must have spent hours and hours digging around following all sorts of leads to come up with that sentence! It manages to overstate the obvious while understating the depth of the human tragedy involved - all at once.
The piece goes on to tell us about the lives of each of the four women each one more tragic than the next. What kind of a world do we live in - where we can be expected to read about things like this over breakfast - pass the butter please - and then go on and have a normal day at the office?
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