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jpd1975
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Mon Dec 10th, 2007 05:36 am |
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I find it very interesting how the media goes into these frenzies over certain missing people while the majority of missing person's cases get little to no media attention espcially if the victim is not a young white girl.
Now this case does draw special coverage because the husband is an especially enormous head case... the cops were called to the house something like 18 times and lots of other weird stuff...
She may have been cheating on him, he may have found out and he may have killed her, which is what I think happened... but what I find interesting is the number of children and young adults that go missing every day that get little/no ongoing coverage...
Is it the networks focus on the sensational stories for the attention grabbing headlines over the rest of the cases nationwide...
just something I find interesting...
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Posted: Mon Dec 10th, 2007 06:31 am |
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| I agree with you on many of your points, but one thing people forget many times is that "the news" is ultimately a TV show and ratings are as important to the news as they are to any series or show. They type of story you mention above drives ratings up and caters to the type of viewer who normally watches the nightly and daily news. Sad as it maybe, but for ratings some cases are better then others.
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jpd1975
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Thu Dec 20th, 2007 03:46 am |
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| True - Ratings rule - its always going to be this way with the way that ratings are done now... and our culture is also pretty geared to this type of thing, driven by some pretty sick stuff.
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Posted: Thu Dec 20th, 2007 04:05 am |
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| "dirty laundry" is popular. always has been and always will be, lol
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jpd1975
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Fri Dec 28th, 2007 08:45 pm |
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| How true, that "dirty laundry" is what the media goes after. I guess the story is perfect for the media, young woman, older man, his history, her cell phone records... the infamous blue barrel... it really is perfect for them latch on to and suck it dry for all its worth.
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