Local radio personality and Memphis Blogger Thaddeus Matthews has done it again. He has put controversial postings on his website. Matthews has posted images of the six murder victims from the Lester Street killings. The fact that Matthews posts controversial topics and statements on his website is not surprising. What is surprising is the fact that he is publicly apologizing to viewers, readers, and the family members of Shindri Roberson for posting the same image of her on his site as the Commercial Appeal did on the front page.
While Matthews is under no legal obligation to inform the family of his intent and while there is no law preventing him from doing so, he is issuing a retraction of sorts. He is apologizing to the family, telling them that he should have at least informed them of his intent. The fearless blogger is quoted in his latest blog as saying "what is right is right and what is wrong is wrong." He explains this by saying that it was improper to post the facial image of Shindri Roberson on his blog because whether or not she had a child, he would not want the child seeing that image of his or her mother and that being the child's final memory of her.
Matthews' smash-mouth, provocative style is refreshing to an old cynic like me, but even I can agree that he might have gone a step too far with posting the facial shot of Ms. Roberson. To his credit, his motivation is an honorable one. He wishes to ensure that the Memphis Police Department doesn't just sweep this under the rug and that they don't try to cover it up in the event they can't find the killer or killers.
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I remember visting his blog a few times. I really did not like it because there was nothing good that he posted. Not my type of blog. I think he should get a life or something besides trying to just find something negative to do. He should be apart of the solution and not be the problem. He is not helping Memphis in no kind of postive change whatsoever.
I disagree, Kelvin. I think he is doing a very good job of lighting a fire under the collective asses of the somewhat morally questionable cops of the Memphis Police Department. It is no secret that the police (most of them) in this town are corrupt. Matthews just wants them to do their jobs right. His commentary infuriates not only police director Larry Godwin, but Shelby County District Attorney Bill Gibbons as well.
I understand your point-of-view, but what you are saying, but I'm sure there is another way to prove his point. The blog is a good idea, in a sense, but just creating an uproar on the tragedy does not really provide a solution to this recent crime. I'm not trying to contradict myself in anyway, but it seems that I am eventually going to do that. So I will end here because I'm not going to get any further with this.
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