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    Default If Natalee Holloway weren't so darned pretty...

    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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    Default Re: If Natalee Holloway weren't so darned pretty...

    Pretty people get more attention?

    I never knew that. I'll ponder that in my next strip club visit.

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    Default Re: If Natalee Holloway weren't so darned pretty...

    What - you mean instead focus on:

    One 70,000 jobs created last quarter?

    An out of control government borrowing money from a communist country that is going to economically clean our clocks in the next decade?

    The increasing cost of a college education yet it's decreasing value?

    The housing bubble - or not?

    Just how out of touch are america's politicians?

    Local government - going bankrupt?

    Why does Al Queda hate america?

    Or...

    is the media stirring up distrust and frenzy regarding americans in foreign countries?

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    Default Re: If Natalee Holloway weren't so darned pretty...

    Oh yea...

    She is 18. She is an adult. Her parents should have raised her to be a little more suspicious of people. I know a number of "good christian children" who are incredibly naive about the world and it's ways. Must be because they don't have TV.

    (OK - ranting is really starting up now...)

    Kids are kids until the legal system decides to try them as adults. Then I guess they are "grown up" - even at the ripe age of 13.

    Which way is it? Adult or juvenile?

    Whatever is convenient to the powers that be I suppose.

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