[The KG9 Kid]

Greta and Nancy Grace are just doing cartwheels of joy down the halls in anticipation that the Hannah Anderson incident is about to go media supernova the moment we get wind she's about to be arrested.

Not to mention this one just came out of nowhere last week, and so soon after Zimmerman? America's never-ending conga line of depravity never fails to disappoint. It's like they're just printing money over on those cable TV news talking head shows.

[nickcarraway]

Yeah, a cure 16 year old girl is going to be convicted, instead of blaming it all on the creepy weirdo who is dead.

[Smokin' Joe]

Seems like these little but spectacular 'human interest' crimes are tailor made to overshadow the crimes of the Administration in DC. I realize there are always sickos and situations which can be splattered all over America's living rooms, but the media have been using them to smokescreen the failures of the administration and the criminal acts thereof.

In the meantime, the cultural ADHD (--Oh Look! A Butterfly!--) of Americans plays right into the entire media paradigm, making the concealment and obfustication of issues of far more global and national import possible.

Throw in a dash of "social media" and people are completely distracted from the very things which have macro influence on their world, while they concentrate on minutiae.