Me: "You know Monica Holloway?
HT: "No."
Me: "You know her. She's the one who wrote Driving With Dead People?"
HT: "Oh. Yeah. Now I know who you mean."
Me: "Well, she was supposed to be interviewed on Dianne Rehm on NPR. And some of her family members came forward and said she's lying about the sexual abuse and NPR yanked her interview. Can you believe that?"
HT: "You mean the perpetrator is denying it?"
Me: "Yeah."
HT (sarcastically): "What a shock."
* http://wamu.org/programs/dr/contact_us.php
10 comments:
Unbelievable. Have you read "Leaving the Saints" by Martha Beck? Same thing. Enough.
I SO TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU!!! It was an amazing book, and what is happening to her now is complete BULLSHIT. NPR and Diane Rehm are really letting me down and I intend to tell them, for whatever it is worth. I think is sucks. Abusers never quit, or never stop trying.
What did NPR (or anyone else for that matter) THINK her mother and father would say?
Eye-roll.
People choose to believe what they want to believe. That's hard. The media can be pretty influencing.
Whose reputation is at stake? Of course someone will come out and say she's a liar.
I am so disappointed in NPR. Let's all write them.
Sent them my two cents! Thanks for helping, Michelle!
I ordered the book from the library, haven't read it yet and not at all surprised about the censorship. Don't ask, don't tell. I'm on my way to bitch out NPR, thank you for the heads up.
No shit. Pft.
I am disappointed in NPR.
:(
You mean the same NPR who bowed to Grinker who wrote a book saying there's no autism epidemic? By the way, I created a GREAT sketch for SNL about Diane Rehm (and yes,I know she has a throat disorder.) She's introducing her guest, it takes her so fucking long the guest drops dead and then she says "we're out of time." I even had the voice down cold. But I can do that.
Thanks for posting this, Michelle! The more light we shine on this dark situation, the less chance it has of continuing!
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