This is such a profound article. The journalist is right. The only reason 60 minutes paid GT is because they believe that people will watch. While he continues to be discussed, he is a public figure. Don't give GT airtime. Don't watch him. Don't write about him. Don't hate on him. Don't justify his actions. Forget him.
But I think that on Sunday night, this thread will start up again on the hate because so many posters will watch the show, even if it is as a study in psychology or to find an inconsistency that can be reported to police in the hope he will be re-prosecuted. 60 minutes doesn't care why people watch! They only care about how many people watch.
While people continue to profit from GT he will remain in the public eye. Whether that is financial profit (journalism, tourism) or emotional (venting/hating/ hoping for vigilante justice on GT to feel better about oneself), while people are focusing on him, people are profiting from him.
Several posters her have said for the trial that this thread is about remembering, honouring and getting justice for Warriena. Is continuing to speculate on what GT may have done to her, revisiting and reposting snippets from the audio, hoping for some kind of further punishment to be inflicted on GT really remembering or honouring her?
Her mother has expressed her devastation that the audio has been released to the public. How is continuing to scrutinise it remembering her in any sort of positive way? How is that respecting the family wishes? How is keeping this whole tragedy in the public arena benefitting anyone except GT, the media, or those for whom venting fulfils an emotional need?
In my opinion it's time to forget him.