That isn't the right question. It isn't just this little girl that America and the world get fixated on. Remember Natalie Holloway? Nicole Simpson?
We will be fed, electronically, one dead female after the other. The appetite is insatiable, and the delivery system is relentless and remorseless.
That is one reason I quit television about 12 years ago. Ain't been back since.
Excellent observation.
I first really noticed this with the Chandra Levy case. The only thing that took that off the airwaves was 9/11/01.