Most times as a journalist, I find people overeager to have their stories told. They believe the whole world must really want to know what they have to say. This interview was a different experience. A woman chained in her Orthodox marriage asked me, as the cameras were getting ready, why I was interviewing her. Shed been trapped in this marriage, tying to get out, for more than 10 years. Her civil divorce was granted in 2007. And her husband still hasnt given her the Orthodox Jewish divorce document that would allow her to remarry within her community. Shed been dealing with this for so long, with really no solution, that shed come to think there was no reason for anyone to care -- especially a news organization with a broad audience to serve. I responded that it is precisely to cover stories like this that news organizations exist in the first place. Its not a sunny or happy story, or one that will make anyone feel proud to be a Jew -- but its an important story about how people (in some ways, an entire half of the Orthodox Jewish population) can be mistreated. This is your chance to prove me right. Lets see if this story gets shared and viewed as much as all the shiny happy ones, and if there is an audience that cares about women trapped in their Orthodox Jewish marriages. Lonna Kins story hasnt been picked up by any other major Jewish news outlets; The Jewish Channel is going out on a limb here in not just covering her story, but making an exception to our rules by putting up the entire interview on the web, for free, where anyone can watch it. Make it clear to me, to TJC, and to all the other news organizations, Jewish and non-Jewish, that this story is a priority for you and for a large swath of our potential audience, and I guarantee you, youll see more coverage of it and stories like it. newsdesk.tjctv/2014/03/up-close-march-24-2014/
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:41:42 +0000
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