To the editors:
If his intention was to provide readers with an update on the fashion of the Medical Examiner’s office, perhaps he should have submitted his article to GQ magazine.
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Perhaps, since my father is of Italian descent, his swelled belly is linked with lasagna. For the writer to use this is a gross stereotype. My father recently lost 35 pounds. I wonder what his belly would have been called then –a grossly deformed lesion.
Other employees were also described in an unnecessary and unfair way. Who cares if an employee looks like a blues singer from the Mississippi Delta. That has no place in a story allegedly about the night shift at the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.
I hope this reporter will refrain from including one-sided, unnecessary information the next time he writes a story.
I’m sorry that you misunderstood my article. In no way was it meant to portray employees of the medical examiner’s office as slovenly or lazy.
And, despite your final comments, I did indeed mention how this work frequently requires the investigators to deal with awful tragedies like the Gacy case and the DC-10 crash–both of which were in the article.
