Posted on 11/13/2004 9:41:31 AM PST by Kitten Festival
Our long national nightmare is nearly over. No, I don’t mean the terrorism nightmare. The other nightmare. The daily unrelenting media coverage of Scott Peterson’s murder of his cute, perpetually smiling, very pregnant wife Lacy, and their unborn child Conner.
Don’t get me wrong. This was a horrible crime. But does it really merit pushing aside the news of French atrocities in the Ivory Coast, which make Abu Ghraib look like summer camp? Is it really worth taking the attention of cable news channels away from politics, war, cabinet resignations, and other important news? Thousands of other murders take place every year, with scarcely a note in the media. I care more deeply about our soldier heroes taking causalities while protecting us from monsters poised to strike
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My first reaction to the headline was John Kerry. Then, of course, I thought of Bill Clinton. Tom Daschle. Lawrence O'Donnell. I never really thought of Peterson.
I know there are some people who follow this kind of thing, some people follow sports.
I find both less then compelling. The only thing interesting about it was it seemed to establish that if you kill a pregnant woman you can be charge with double homicide.
That will have some far reaching implications.
It's Laci, not "Lacy."
Agree
For the life of me I cannot understand why the
death of one person is more or less important than
the passing of anyone else
Murders happen daily in our cities and towns
and each is unique and important
The media circus on this event is incredibly
self serving and debasing
I have no tolerance for it
"French atrocities in the Ivory Coast, which make Abu Ghraib look like summer camp"
Since when would the partisan media care about anything the French do. They don't even care that children in Iraq were deprived of food, milk, school, health services, in order to line the pockets of the FRENCH.
All I want is Greta to go away.
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