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Topic Split: Media Coverage of Sensationalistic Events
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Phillip on September 23, 2006, 07:13:33 am --- What replaces it is an endless supply of ... missing pretty blonde white women
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These stories are very sad, and it's very scary that so many pretty blonde white women have disappeared.
However, I take some comfort in the fact that people who are male, non-white, non-blonde, average looking and/or over age 23 apparently never go missing! What are those people doing to protect themselves so successfully? Maybe they could offer some safety tips to the pretty-blonde-white-young-female community.
::)
opinionista:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on September 23, 2006, 12:53:03 pm ---These stories are very sad, and it's very scary that so many pretty blonde white women have disappeared.
However, I take some comfort in the fact that people who are male, non-white, non-blonde, average looking and/or over age 23 apparently never go missing! What are those people doing to protect themselves so successfully? Maybe they could offer some safety tips to the pretty-blonde-white-young-female community.
::)
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It reminds me of the case of Natalee Holloway, the high school graduate who went missing in Aruba. It was all over the place. And I was always wondering if the case became big news just because she was, according to the news itself, a nice, sweet, perfect and all good blond american girl who disappeared in little a foreign country nobody knows about, with an obscure justice system. Curiously enough, around the same time another girl, hispanic I believe, went missing in some state (can't remember) and that case barely made the news.
serious crayons:
I think there have been a couple of cases of girls disappearing who were young, white, pretty -- and dark-haired. But they're rare.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: opinionista on September 23, 2006, 01:57:22 pm ---It reminds me of the case of Natalee Holloway, the high school graduate who went missing in Aruba. It was all over the place. And I was always wondering if the case became big news just because she was, according to the news itself, a nice, sweet, perfect and all good blond american girl who disappeared in little a foreign country nobody knows about, with an obscure justice system. Curiously enough, around the same time another girl, hispanic I believe, went missing in some state (can't remember) and that case barely made the news.
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Natalee's predicatment was all over the news. I assumed that was because things were slow in Iraq. ::)
News agencies are not for non-profit. They have investors and survive on advertising. What sells is good. Stories of young, kinda-sorta-pretty, blond white college girls who disappear on little islands considered 'safe' because they're where many people go to vacation is news.
A hispanic girl who disappears close to home who may or may not have tons of ex-boyfriends, bad-tempered husbands, relatives, psycho neighbors or inlaws and/or stalkers in her life is not news.
People are killed mostly by their friends/family/loved ones.
People who are killed by strangers in a faraway exotic places where people go to vacation, let down their hair and have a fun time is news.
People who are killed by cancer or cars is not news. Thousands if not hundreds of thousands die this way every year. People who get killed in unusual circumstances - planes, spinach, WTC, etc, even though the number is much smaller - IS news, simply because of the dramatic rarity.
Phillip Dampier:
--- Quote from: opinionista on September 23, 2006, 01:57:22 pm ---It reminds me of the case of Natalee Holloway, the high school graduate who went missing in Aruba. It was all over the place. And I was always wondering if the case became big news just because she was, according to the news itself, a nice, sweet, perfect and all good blond american girl who disappeared in little a foreign country nobody knows about, with an obscure justice system. Curiously enough, around the same time another girl, hispanic I believe, went missing in some state (can't remember) and that case barely made the news.
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Holloway gave great cat fights between Rita Sucrets Cosby on MSNBC and Greta who "owned the story" on Fox News. Night after night, day after day. Then mom went down and decided to help the Arubans out with their justice system, managing to insult the Dutch territory and its citizens as backwater no-nothings. After one of the millions of press conference, after one of mom's more vocal tirades, a woman speaking in Dutch outside called Natalee a "slut girl from the states" who came down here, decided to party too much, disappeared, and now this "trailer trash mom from Alabama who can't teach her own children common sense values wants to come down here and tell us poor island folk how to run the place?"
Because the best way to solve a crime is to antagonize the local police force, the Arubans, and get camera elbowing elected American officials into the mix threatening boycotts.
Then Dr. Phil had to add his two cents about how she was kidnapped by a Venezuelan white slavery ring.
Spare us.
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