The Hot Story: Censoring Jessica Sierra
December 4, 2007 at 10:43 am by Wayne Garcia
Former American Idol-ator Jessica Sierra is the talk of the nation today, and not because of her singing talent.
She’s been popped again, and this time she added to her newsworthy rating by throwing in a spate of obscenities, racial slurs and an offer to have sex with her arresting officer in exchange for being let go.
Both the St. Pete Times and Tampa Tribune offered copies of her arrest report online. But both censored the reports, removing the specific sex act and her obscenities.
Here is what their deletions looked like:
For the record, Jessica said, “Please don’t take me to jail, I’ll suck your dick if you don’t take me to jail.” Upon hearing her romantic offer rebuffed, Jessica told the (white) TPD officer, “Fuck you nigger.” Repeatedly.
The tbo.com and tampabay.com .pdf’s also censored the following obscenities (grammar and spelling as printed on the incident report): “suck a dick,” “your a dick sucking faggot,” “fuck you,” and the immortal “you fucking bitch, I’ll kick your ass. I’ll fuck you up you whore.”
Click here for the unexpurgated version (kiddies, avert your eyes): jessica-sierra-report-full.pdf
Now, I guess you could make a case for not printing such words in a “family newspaper.” But online, where freedom of information should be king, why take the time to go through and remove the details of what got Jessica thrown in the Hotel Graybar for the second time this year? Especially when the uncensored report is widely available elsewhere on the web?
