Who cares about the murder of JonBenet?
It must be August - the dog days of summer - when our supposed mainstream media have nothing to report so we get stories right out of the old "True Crime" magazine. Just like the obsession on the Scott Peterson case, or the missing co-end in Aruba, the media seem to obsess about scandalous stuff.
For example on the same day the suspect in JonBenet's murder was arrested, a federal judge in Detroit ruled President Bush's warrantless wiretapping was unconstitutional. I have news alerts setup with my local media and news sources like Google and Yahoo. I got 2 alerts for the wiretapping announcement. I got 4 alerts for the murder case.
Which one do you think I think is more important?
If you said the wiretapping case you win.
Don't get me wrong. I do think it is good that it seems they solved the murder case, but when an entertainment news show like Access Hollywood does a feature on the arrest - you know there are problems with decisions on what is news.
A murder occurs somewhere in the world every day. For example in the year of JonBenet's death in 1996, Washington, DC reported 400 murders. Covering just one murder with so many resources, the media is pandering to the salacious side of people. It also seems a bit bigoted. The cases that seem to be focused on involve the death or kidnapping of white females.
It all just makes me turn the channel.
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