Editor,
I am currently a student at UNM and I am outraged with the Daily Lobo’s coverage of the recent tragic death of one of our professors. Even though the article in the Tuesday, March 9 Daily Lobo states that police have not yet released the victims’ identities to the press, your article irresponsibly identifies these victims as an English professor and his girlfriend. Indeed, your Web site only released the identities of the victims around noon, on the afternoon after your article was published.
I know people personally involved with the tragically deceased; members and students of the English department. The graphic description of the incident and the pictures of the front of the professor’s house, familiar to the English department members, also identify the deceased.
Again I say that this is highly irresponsible! Do you think it is appropriate that people close to these individuals learned of this incident through the coverage in your paper?
This article represents the most degrading and disrespectful kind of reporting in America. I find it shameful that the Daily Lobo stoops to these, the lowest of journalistic standards. Therefore, I demand that you apologize for your coverage immediately!
David Korostyshevsky
UNM student
