Fwd: The Good Wife - Aaron's story

[Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman]

just FYI. i haven't watched it (and may not); if you do and there's anything else of interest, let everyone know!

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From: Daphne Evans <daphne...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 9:01 PM
Subject: The Good Wife - Aaron's story
To: Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman <tare...@gmail.com>

Hi Taren - 

You may had already heard, but in watching this week's episode of The Good Wife (the only show I watch every week) I saw that they reference Aaron and weave the theme of "idealism versus reality" into the plot line. CBS just started posting episodes online this link should be the ticket. If you start at 3:40 you'll see the direct reference. I take it as a good thing that Aaron's story is percolating into pop culture.

http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_good_wife/video/33C94285-73AB-AA42-4086-FFF0680303E7/the-good-wife-rape-a-modern-perspective/

Anyhow, I hope you're doing well, Taren. Hugs, always.

Daphne

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[Anthony Mercurio]

My aunt and mother both mentioned this to me...I have never watched the show but I can look into it. 

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[Kelsey Kauffman]

I watched it last night.  The story centers around a brave teenage girl who sues her rapist who, it turns out, had shared images online and is eventually outed by Anonymous.  The only direct reference to Aaron comes in the first 4 minutes (see below), but the themes of idealism vs "realism" are woven throughout.  Towards the end, the lawsuit against prosecutorial overcharge is briefly referenced again, with the law partners saying no to the case, which I assume means that that story line will be dropped, but perhaps not.  

3:16

Lawyer A: Did something go wrong?

B: no, just a client who is idealistic

A: is that a bad thing?

B: no it just complicates things

A: how does it complicate things?

B: reality isn't idealistic, and when the two of them run into each other, only one gets hurt

A: maybe it will be reality this time

B: my guess is not.  so, tell me about this class action

A: No, no, that's not a segway.  Speaking of idealism--now there's a segway.  Do you know who Aaron Swartz is?  

B: The computer activist who died

A: The computer activist who committed suicide after an unrelenting campaign from federal prosecutors to imprison him.  In his memory, I'm attempting to organize a class action against prosecutorial overcharging

B: and you want us to join this class action?

A: yes, 

B:  I'll run it by my partners, but they're not always into causes for causes' sake; they tend to want to see the....  [conversation is interrupted]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman <tare...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Eszter Hargittai]

It's a good show worth watching. For those not familiar with it, I'll
mention that they often take on ripped-from-the-headlines types of
topics and several related to digital media. However, it is very rare
for them to mention real names. They have had stories involving law
suits around a big social network site and its founder, but have used
different names and have also had several episodes about a big search
engine and its founder, but use different names there as well.

Eszter

Eszter Hargittai
April McClain Delaney and John Delaney Research Professor, Associate
Professor, Communication Studies Department, Northwestern University
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University

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