Attractive white suburban girl from affluent family goes missing (and later found dead with boyfriend on the loose).
There you have your ingredients for a media sensation. Glad I don't have cable TV anymore. But based on what I see here on FR, it must be wall-to-wall on the news networks.
I don’t watch tv either, but I assume you’re correct.
She’s not Kabul, inflation, mandatory vaccines that are mostly useless, unemployment, blown up civilians and children, 13 US troops, 3.5 trillion dollars, etc.