{"id":915,"date":"2023-03-01T18:18:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T19:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=915"},"modified":"2023-03-01T19:22:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T19:22:39","slug":"greg-borowski-do-the-right-thing-delete-the-disgraceful-michael-dorow-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=915","title":{"rendered":"Greg Borowski, Do the Right Thing & Delete the Disgraceful Michael Dorow Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/greg-borowski\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Michael Dorow should have the \u201cright to be forgotten.\u201d There is precedent for this. Europe has a right to be forgotten law, in which people can request that information on them be removed from the Internet.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

We are calling on Greg Borowski, the new<\/a> Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editor, to take a stand for ethics, fairness, and standards coming out of the gate. He has a chance to chart a new course and send a signal. We are calling on Borowski to do the right thing and delete the media\u2019s disgraceful Michael Dorow story.<\/p>\n

You may think newspapers simply don\u2019t erase the public record. Think again. They do. There is growing recognition in the American news media that, in the age of SEO and Google, some news reporting unfairly prevents a person from ever learning from past mistakes and conducting a productive life. The stain of Google infamy forever is a greater punishment than some offenses; it is a brutal public stockade and flogging that never expires; it is a life sentence for minor transgressions, a \u201cscarlet letter G\u201d you can never remove. Europe is way ahead of the United States on this, with right-to-be-forgotten laws.<\/p>\n

Prominent, prestigious newspapers in the United States have \u201cright to be forgotten\u201d protocols. The Boston Globe, for example, has a<\/a> \u201cfresh start initiative.\u201d Their website says, \u201cWe are not in the business of rewriting the past, but we don\u2019t want to stand in the way of a regular person\u2019s ability to craft their future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Never was that truer than in the case of Michael Dorow, age 19, who was accused<\/a> by Dan Bice\u2019s pile of anonymous sources in connection with a fentanyl death. Michael Dorow is the teenage son of former Supreme Court candidate, Jennifer Dorow, a conservative.<\/p>\n

Michael Dorow was not running for anything. He\u2019s a teenager. He\u2019s a private citizen. He was never arrested for the death in question. He was never charged in it. He was never even publicly named a suspect in it! The available public records in the case, which is two years old, don\u2019t even name him!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet the Journal Sentinel did!<\/p>\n

Greg Borowski<\/a> should also create a fresh start initiative at the Journal Sentinel. He should start by doing the right thing for Michael Dorow\u2019s future. Delete the story. If he is ever arrested or charged, bring it back.<\/p>\n

Michael Dorow, 19, was publicly accused of nothing<\/strong> by police and prosecutors, yet the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\u2019s Dan Bice recklessly and shamefully named him<\/a>, implying, with no solid evidence, that he might be responsible for a young man\u2019s tragic drug death. They propelled him through their news cannon as fodder in a contentious Supreme Court race. After their stories, Michael\u2019s family had to move him out of state because he was being tracked and followed. The cost is real. Anyone who saw Jennifer\u2019s daughter crying on stage during her graceful concession speech can see that.<\/p>\n

Children should not have to pay the price for their parents\u2019 political campaigns. Especially if there is no evidence they did anything.<\/p>\n

The media also handled Dorow\u2019s situation with a glaring double standard.<\/p>\n

In contrast, Elijah Combs was accused of murdering the Milwaukee Common Council president\u2019s niece and leading Milwaukee police on a dangerous pursuit that ended with a crash and his suicide<\/a>. Combs shot at officers, police say. He was given a weak sentence by left-wing Supreme Court judge Janet Protasiewicz for a brutal domestic violence case.<\/p>\n

Even after all of those developments, as of March 1, 2023, the Milwaukee news media still hadn\u2019t named him more than a day after the homicide. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel had NOTHING about Combs on their website. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has admitted the newspaper typically does not name people until they are charged with crimes.<\/p>\n

Unless\u2026unless\u2026<\/p>\n

Unless you\u2019re the son of a conservative running for higher office, apparently. They violated their own code of ethics by allowing Bice\u2019s half-baked, unproven innuendos to hit print.<\/p>\n

Spectrum News and the liberal Wisconsin Examiner should delete their stories naming Michael Dorow too. They were just following Bice.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin Right Now subsequently wrote a counter-story pointing out all of these glaring facts, so at least there would be something on Google to counter the Bice hit piece when people Google the poor kid\u2019s name. If they delete theirs, we will delete the story we wrote that is coming to Dorow\u2019s defense. It reads, \u201cDan Bice\u2019s Reckless & Unfair Attack on Jennifer Dorow\u2019s Son.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Dan<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Michael Dorow is just starting out his adult life. He will be applying for jobs soon. For colleges, possibly. He will enter the dating world. And, forevermore, he will be defamed through a simple Google search.<\/p>\n

In the age of Google, you don\u2019t get to erase stories like that. They don\u2019t ever go away. They don\u2019t get old. They used to say that something was \u201cold news\u201d if it was more than a day and a half old. But, in the age of Google, everything is \u201cnew news\u201d to the person who is just discovering it by searching your name for the first time.<\/p>\n

Every story, every mistake, every allegation, no matter how old, is every day\u2019s front page. It is the tyranny of Google. It\u2019s an unfair price.<\/p>\n

Have some empathy for goodness sake. Michael Dorow IS ONLY 19! AND HE WAS NEVER EVEN NAMED A SUSPECT!<\/p>\n

Look, his mother lost the primary. There\u2019s nothing to be politically gained by it anymore. But he\u2019s got to live with it. He didn\u2019t choose this. He didn\u2019t run for office.<\/p>\n

According to the First Amendment Encyclopedia<\/a>, \u201cthe right to be forgotten is a legal concept recognized in the European Union and other parts of the world but a concept foreign and contrary to established First Amendment principles.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The article explains, \u201cThe push for \u2018the right to be forgotten\u2019 comes from the idea that one\u2019s prior misdeeds or acts of bad judgment should not come up on Google searches or other online search engines forever, that individuals ought to have the ability to remove negative references. This concept places tension between privacy<\/a> and free expression.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n

As noted, some newspapers do this in the United States voluntarily, even though American courts don\u2019t recognize the right, and it extends beyond the Boston Globe. They have launched right to be forgotten programs<\/a>, where people can petition to get their past mistakes removed from stories and newspaper online archives and search results to give them a second chance at life.<\/p>\n

Never is that more needed than in the case of Michael Dorow.<\/p>\n

In this case, there is no evidence that Michael Dorow has even made a mistake. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel should delete Bice\u2019s disgraceful story.<\/p>\n

And they should explain why they didn\u2019t name a felon accused of murder right away but they were perfectly willing to name a teenager who wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Greg, do the right thing. We are watching. And we will be the first to applaud if you do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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