What does being a CNN Producer have to do with the allegation?
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I don't really see the point in putting someone in a coma for life. It's just a slow death penalty enacted through "natural causes". It's just putting a veil of enlightenment over the barbarism of the death penalty. You're still sentencing them to death...you're just taking longer to do it.
And, as stated, the problem with putting criminals in comas for the duration of their sentence is that there is not even an attempt at rehabilatation. They just get put back on the street a little older physically....but otherwise in the same state they went in. No GED, no therapy, no new skills that will help them to re-integrate with society...etc.
About a week and a half late on this one OP, this was already hitting media circles at least a week ago. Also isn't it interesting how none of the major news outlets were reporting the story? Just like they aren't talking about the Maxwell trial? They sure seem to have no qualms with defending pedophiles keeping anything that makes them look bad on the down low.
So CNN fires a criminal.... I'm sure the right will turn this into "CNN bad" somehow. Looks like they already did lol.
"not acceptable but totes million times better, so keep it". Hypocritical outrage machine just keeps going. Either you accept life sentence to innocents here and there as an acceptable consequence of having the system in place, or you oppose it being a thing, like you seem to oppose death penalty. There's no weaseling around it, like you tried here.
They generally get money and freedom you can't replace the time lost, but again basic fucking logic says at least they are still alive and can be free again. YOU CAN NOT DO ANYTHING AFTER DEATH.
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If my choice is death or possible freedom later it's not really a choice. It's stupidly obvious.
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In the UK we had the whole Jimmy Saville saga with the BBC. Once everything became open it turned out that many people within the organization in positions of power knew he was a wrongun but failed to report or take any steps to stop him. This all lead to big changes within the BBC into how they operate.
In this case I would err on the side of caution here and suspect this is an isolated incident that nobody else that worked with him knew about. It will probably be the case that opponents of CNN will try to use this as ammunition against them. That being said there are instances where company culture allows this sort of behaviour to happen so it is relevant so some degree.