Natalee Holloway: The Next JonBenet Ramsey?
I sincerely hope that Ms. Holloway is found, but if not, how long are we going to hear about her every hour on the hour even when there is absolutely nothing new to report? Even though it's only been a couple of months her media exposure is looking like straight JonBenet.
For those that are wise enough to not bother watching or reading news media, JonBenet Ramsey was a little girl who was murdered in 1996. And we're still hearing about it..9 frigging years later! Not that it isn't (or more accurately wasn't) newsworthy, but how many other kids have been murdered in the interim, the ones we've never heard of? Similarly, how many other Americans (or just people for that matter) who aren't Natalee Holloway have gone missing since May, yet don't get so much as a blurb on The O'Reilly Factor?
It's all quite simple. The media tells us what it thinks we should care about, and decides what is going to be force-fed to us ad nauseum and what we will remain absolutely ignorant of. It decides who and what is important or unimportant, and people being the sheep they are never know the difference. It never seems to strike anyone as odd that we are still reading speculative crap about a girl who was murdered shortly after Clinton was elected, or why a Google search of "nuremberg trials" - the most important trial of the 20th century - gets 869,000 hits while "Natalee Holloway" gets a mind-boggling 1,710,000.
Why did the media choose these cases? Easy. Because one was a beauty pageant queen and the other was a hottie. Same with Laci Peterson. If any of these girls looked like Ernest Borgnine, you'd never have heard of 'em. So ugly chicks take note, because the media hath spoken. Get yourself killed or disappear and nobody will care, because yo ass just ain't newsworthy. Unless you get eaten alive by toads or abducted by a piratical midget or something.
Now that would be cool.
For those that are wise enough to not bother watching or reading news media, JonBenet Ramsey was a little girl who was murdered in 1996. And we're still hearing about it..9 frigging years later! Not that it isn't (or more accurately wasn't) newsworthy, but how many other kids have been murdered in the interim, the ones we've never heard of? Similarly, how many other Americans (or just people for that matter) who aren't Natalee Holloway have gone missing since May, yet don't get so much as a blurb on The O'Reilly Factor?
It's all quite simple. The media tells us what it thinks we should care about, and decides what is going to be force-fed to us ad nauseum and what we will remain absolutely ignorant of. It decides who and what is important or unimportant, and people being the sheep they are never know the difference. It never seems to strike anyone as odd that we are still reading speculative crap about a girl who was murdered shortly after Clinton was elected, or why a Google search of "nuremberg trials" - the most important trial of the 20th century - gets 869,000 hits while "Natalee Holloway" gets a mind-boggling 1,710,000.
Why did the media choose these cases? Easy. Because one was a beauty pageant queen and the other was a hottie. Same with Laci Peterson. If any of these girls looked like Ernest Borgnine, you'd never have heard of 'em. So ugly chicks take note, because the media hath spoken. Get yourself killed or disappear and nobody will care, because yo ass just ain't newsworthy. Unless you get eaten alive by toads or abducted by a piratical midget or something.
Now that would be cool.
posted by Soulend at 6:01 AM
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