Former FAIR staffer Jennifer L. Pozner gives props on her Women In Media & News site (10/12/08) to a "local Louisiana newspaper report[ing] on the cycle of domestic violence without sensationalism":

Last week, I blogged about the Eunice News, a small, local newspaper in Louisiana that has decided to do something that shouldn’t be (but too often is) unusual for corporate media: educate readers about the nature of domestic violence, from the roots of the problem to the ways it plays out in the lives of victims and perpetrators.

..."In 'Loretta's Story: Abuse Started Shortly After Marriage,' Jamie Anfenson-Comeau... eschews the victim blaming that is still inappropriately present in major media discussions about violence against women."...

This Friday, Anfenson-Comeau continues his Domestic Violence Month series with "Loretta's Story, 2: Move Didn't Change Things." This week’s article, again via a direct account of one woman’s experience, offers a brief glimpse into the controlling measures that domestic violence abusers use to increasingly isolate their victims, the escalation of the level and range of violence over time, and the internalization of blame by victims.

Pozner concludes that, "if more newspapers treated the subject of spousal abuse this way, we might have less victim blaming and a broader understanding of the problem in the general public."

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