On 22 Apr 2007 at 16:33:50 -0400, "Jeff Raymond"
<jeff.raymond(a)internationalhouseofbacon.com> wrote:
An entire biographical article on Michael Richards
balanced too far on the
n-word incident, or the Alec Baldwin thing from this week, yeah, there's
an issue. What about the astronaut who went cross country in an alleged
attempt to murder her jilted lover? Guess what - her biography's going to
be based on that one incident, no matter what the eventual outcome. This
isn't a bad thing, either - it's simply reality.
And those examples are actually ones that are more favorably disposed
towards having relatively balanced bios, given that they (Richards,
Baldwin, and whatzhername the astronaut) actually did have bios
before their respective incidents due to their general notability in
their professions. People who were completely unknown until an
incident erupts around them have even less shot at balance, and it
would make more sense to title the article after the incident rather
than the person (assuming the incident is notable enough for an
article at all).
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