I’m sure the vast majority of us have never been kidnapped or had a family member kidnapped.
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That’s my point. (That’s why the word you are looking for is “Sympathy”, btw)
You still haven’t answered the question.
Why should we care about a news organization celebrity relation? Or maybe more to the point, why don’t the news organizations care about all those missing people? Never heard a peep about it. But we’re all supposed to get exercised about this - to the exclusion of a great many very important issues of our time. It sucks all the air out of the room, so to speak. Or so I’m told, I haven’t watched any of it since about 2012, but from what I’m hearing it’s 24/7 right now. See where I’m goin’ with that?
I have no answers , as to why we should care about something happening in the family of someone famous. The media will cover these stories, because they are happening to someone famous.
Maybe the media think whatever they report is something we should care about????