ENOUGH Pretty Dead Girls on the News! (*Vanity Rant*)

HairOfTheDog

[HairOfTheDog]

I detest the media's fascination with covering live, and in great detail, the rape and murder of pretty women (Inspiration for rant, current live coverage of the sentencing hearing, on ALL news channels, of Joseph Smith's penalty hearing).

They have been describing the torture and rape of a little girl in Florida for 45 minutes now, with a split screen showing her sweet picture while they describe everything this monster did to her.

This is perverted voyeurism pretending to be righteous outrage and I see right through it.

I'm damn tired of it. I'm sick because the media, and I presume a large segment of their audience, laps up this stuff... Carlie Brucia, Natalie Holloway, Laci Peterson, Jon Benet Ramsey.... on and on and on.

Covering these trials, and lapping up these details has become a major form of entertainment. Resist this temptation to pour over details too vile to show on regular TV. Immersing yourself in the real life rape, mutilation, and murder of pretty girls is NOT A HEALTHY FORM OF ENTERTAINMENT.

[AnAmericanMother]

Well, I certainly haven't followed the dailies but I've read occasional news reports. Don't watch much TV.

I did watch this sentencing hearing because I have never worked a DP case and wanted to hear sentence pronounced.

The voyeuristic quality has always been there. The public hysteria about the Lindbergh baby kidnapping was far, far worse than this. Screaming headlines and constant radio reports, interviews with all and sundry and pages of photographs.

It's not so much knowing in a general way that evil's there -- it's learning how evil operates and how it disguises itself. That way you can avoid it if it passes through your neighborhood.

We live in a very upscale Atlanta neighborhood (hey we got a bargain on our house - it's a long story). Anyhow, I discovered that less than a block from us lived a man who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death (he killed his cousin for the insurance money) but escaped when the GA DP was ruled unconstitutional.

He was involved in a local zoning case and went door to door trying to persuade people to back his side. He went from persuasion to outright threats . . . he threatened me at my own front door and I gave him 30 seconds to get off my property (he didn't know I had a loaded .45 in the back of my belt, but I did.) I found out he sicced his Dobermanns on a neighbor and threatened several other people. We all got together and told our story to the local police precinct captain, and he and several detectives paid a call on the man. Three weeks later he put his house up for sale and disappeared from the county. We have not seen or heard from him since.

But you wouldn't think you would run into people like that in a nice suburb, would you?

[HairOfTheDog]

The voyeuristic quality has always been there. The public hysteria about the Lindbergh baby kidnapping was far, far worse than this.

One case. And a pretty interesting one at that. What I'm seeing on TV is case after case after case after case, as soon as one is solved, the next pretty girl to turn up missing anywhere in the country is the media's next darling dead girl, first giving us pictures, and a bio, and a tearful family, getting us all to care, like it's any of our business. They aren't our family. It's not even our town.

[AnAmericanMother]

The Lindbergh case was only the tip of the iceberg. It's remembered now because Lindbergh was famous.

But if you give a look at the newspapers of the 20s & 30s, there was the same breathless publicizing of every case involving pretty girls, adultery, or murder. Just off the top of my head, there was Bonnie & Clyde, the Hall-Mills case (adulterous minister murdered in an orchard with lover), the Judd Gray murder (wife's lover beat husband to death with a sashweight), white slavers, corpses in burning garages, rival bootleggers in shootouts with gun molls, etc. etc.

Even if you go back to the 1870s and 1880s, there was a thriving "penny dreadful" literature based on the Wild West and the seamy side of New York, featuring damsels in distress, soiled doves, and gamblers . . . The Police Gazette made its owner very rich by covering 'innocent girl missing in the Bowery' stories as well as lifestyles of the rich and famous.

The major difference is I think the widespread availability of hundreds and hundreds of TV channels with lots of time to fill. The competition is more cut-throat even than the days of multiple newspapers in a single town, and the stations will put what sells on the air. I think that competition for readers is what drove the tabloid murder-and-adultery fest (the radio stations couldn't broadcast that stuff under strict FCC rules at the time), and it's driving the competition for scarce viewers among numerous TV outlets today.

I never watch TV, so it all mostly passes me by. I watched the sentencing hearing on the live link provided by a FReeper.

[HairOfTheDog]

Oh - I know we all tend to be voyeurs where there are gory details... just yesterday I found myself browsing through a website devoted to pictures of badly wrecked cars.

I just think that the inordinate amount of media time (and therefore audience time) devoted to the particularly lurid details of pretty dead girls is not healthy.

[AnAmericanMother]

That's why I don't watch the TV news.

But I do caution my 17 year old daughter to be careful . . . and point out all the television coverage. If it keeps her from doing something dumb, so much the better.

[nuntukamen]

let's hope you have a beautiful daughter who gets raped and murdered, and then you can ask the media to leave well alone and not attempt to assist in running down the pervs...from the little girl in colorado to florida victims, the media obsession is helping to catch people, so who cares if they do it for ratings if the results are justice? and just so you can take your thoughts to the bank, don't forget to diss beth holloway twitty for keeping your gripe a reality in her anguish over her own daughter's loss...the monkey's ass isn't only in the backyard of the VDS neighbor

[HairOfTheDog]

let's hope you have a beautiful daughter who gets raped and murdered

You have a nice day too pal.

[Cold Heat]

They do it because "we the people like it".

Say what you will, but "we the people" is pretty sick and is now jerking every time the voltage is applied by the media. The ports fiasco is a great example. Use your short term memory for a dozen others.

Stupid is as stupid does.....

[HairOfTheDog]

I know...

"And to the audience: YOU TOO."

[Cold Heat]

:-) I'm just as angry about it as I can possibly be, but I realized a couple weeks ago that I can't do a damn thing about it.

I try to just laugh at them....It helps sometimes.......

[nuntukamen]

actually, i will...but what you are asking and complaining about is just what the criminals want because the less attention the better opportunity for living free to do it again...anyway, have you heard about this really cool high-tech invention? its called a remote; you not only can go to another channel without even getting up, but you can turn the thing off if you don't like it...you should buy one and use it, and let the talking heads get the ratings and the perverts get the chair...you have a nice day, too....pal

[HairOfTheDog]

...anyway, have you heard about this really cool high-tech invention? its called a remote; you not only can go to another channel without even getting up, but you can turn the thing off if you don't like it...

I know that, but I like to have it on the national news, in case there is news... And I feel these stories should rightly be local stories, not national obsessions. All the channels to the same thing. I wish to voice my opinion on what I think is a bad use of airtime. You're free to disagree, and if you want to watch this stuff as national news you're in luck. When this one's solved they'll find another one to obsess on with even more lurid details.

[nuntukamen]

well, i am not sure luck has anything to do with it, but you are right in that this is your thread and you have every right to rant into the wee hours of the morning...i just use the remote and really don't watch much, including the news; i like using that power on/off button--i'm an anachronism and a living one at that; i just read newspapers...as for television talking heads, i have found myself wondering if the program directors know anything else is happening in the world besides rape and murder and unused FEMA trailers

[F16Fighter]

Now THAT was a good rant.

You are 1000% right on all counts.

This kind of exploitation has become a Cottage Industry for the blood-sucking MSM -- especially TV.

[HairOfTheDog]

Thank you ;~D

I found many who agreed... and only a couple who didn't.

[nuntukamen]

This is perverted voyeurism pretending to be righteous outrage and I see right through it.


I'm damn tired of it. I'm sick because the media, and I presume a large segment of their audience, laps up this stuff
FORGOT TO MENTION YOU ARE ARE FULL OF MUSLIM EXCREMENT (WORST DESCRIPTION I COULD THINK OF)...YOU MUST BE A PATHETIC HUMAN BEING TO HAVE THIS PROBLEM WITH THE HOLLOWAY RAPE AND MURDER...HOPE YOU HAVE A PESONAL EXPERIENCE TO CURE THIS

[HairOfTheDog]

Did you forget your meds this morning?

[The Shrew]

Covering these trials, and lapping up these details has become a major form of entertainment.

Don't you mean;

Covering these trials, and lapping up these details has become a major form of revenue.

Regards,

TS

[HairOfTheDog]

Just depends on whose perspective you view it from.... for the audience it's entertainment. For the media, it's revenue.

[nuntukamen]

YES, DID YOU FIND THEM?