Ash Kelley
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You are literally walking apathy down the street.
how'd you miss it like how can you actually lack that much humanity and also like as a journalist i'm like you wrote that down and read it and then published it and somebody else was like good idea like what hello yeah yikes as author melissa jane hardy put it rosenthal's interest was aroused not by the murder victim but by his fantasy of the reader reading the story
Which is a perfect way of saying it.
She's like, yeah, he didn't care about a murder victim.
He had this fantasy in his head about somebody reading this story and being enthralled by it.
Fantasy is perhaps the best way to describe his interpretation of this case.
To him, it didn't matter that Kitty Genovese had a family, friends, a girlfriend who loved her.
Or that an entire neighborhood had been literally fucking traumatized by her death and would carry with them the burden of inaction, however unfairly it had been put upon them.
What mattered to him, the only thing that mattered, was that people maintained their fear and outrage that drove them to pick up his articles.
The lack of ethics, the lack of empathy.