You could have applied this to Laci Peterson or Chandra Levy as well.
...would we have all three cable news networks and Court TV obsessing over this?
Just some stuff I've been reading about this off some newsgroups today:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...be74f54d5dec14
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...3ee9e40e9b4613
I abhor this tragedy like anyone else. But why do the media outlets think one missing person's case is more newsworthy than another. You've got to wonder if we'd have this blanket coverage if this gal weren't a "good Christian honor roll student". And I won't even bring up the race factor here, (although I could).
That's because she could be anyone's daughter." screamed Bill O'Reilly the other night. Well a lot of people's daughters turn up missing every year, why then the media obsession over a select few?
I suppose what has really set me off on this particular case is that there's been such a PR effort here to portray this girl as a "good honor roll student whose parents raised her right", and would never do something like get intoxicated in bar in a foreign country and leave with three strangers. If some gal from a trailer park turned up missing, they'd be calling her a crack whore who deserved what she got. When this blue eyed blonde form an affluent family did it, it was an "unfortunate mistake in judgment".
So is there some sort of bias here or do the admittedly unique circumstances involving Natalee's disapearance warrant this kind of coverage, or this propaganda campaign to overlook what many would consider "alley cat" like behavior on the night she disapeared?




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