Posted on 08/08/2005 12:08:56 PM PDT by LibWhacker
If the girl had been fat and ugly, the media wouldn't give a d*am about her.
There has not been a single development in this case in over 60 days! NOT ONE!
how is that different than the cases the 50 states bungle?
"The hosts are going to go where the ratings are and as long as there's an audience for this stuff (and a big one, at that) then hosts will continue to devote whole segments and indeed HOURS to this type of story."
Exactly. If people would watch, they'd broadcast paint drying on a fence, or grass growing. The only thing the tv people care about is production costs, and viewership. It is how they make money.
I agree with you. It's like the media are monkeys swinging from one goofy story to the next. Lacee Peterson, Michael Jackson, Robert Blake and now Holloway. Hey, I'm sorry she's missing, too, but I don't need to hear about it 8 hours per day, every day. Not a priority.
This could have happened anywhere in America.
I remember Mark Furman's statements a few weeks back. He said that the local authorities had bungled this thing royally, that this would not have happened in any large America city.
I was thinking, Aruba is not a large American city, but it's pretty ironic that the guy who screwed up the OJ Simpson investigation in the large American city of Los Angeles and ended up helping him get off now accuses Aruba authorities of screwing this up.
There. I just solved the case. Now let's move on to something else.
Still, I'm not watching that irritating Greta Van Schlushtering no matter what story she covers.
I'm with you. It's a tragedy. I feel sorry for the Holloway family. This had got to be agonizing,undoubtedly. BUT..
what about the SPC Maupin, U.S. Army family?? They have a son MIA in Iraq and the MSM doesn't seem to care much. SPC Maupin was doing his duty for his country when he disappeared in a convoy attack. Someone explain to me why his disappearance is of no importance compared to a drunk teenager who wandered off with strangers in the middle of the night in a foreign country.
Where's the 24/7 wall to wall covearge and calls for answers for a missing soldier??
Americans should boycott the Holloway story period.
This is the biggest non-event ever.
Mohammedans slaughtering other Mohammedans and Infidels everyday, all across the world, and idiotic Faux News can't shut up about "Natalee" or Michael Jackson, and every other idiot event out there.
The Holloway situation is tragic. Her poor family. I have much sympathy for them.
But it is NOT, in my view, a news story that affects the average American as, say, oil prices or the terrorist attacks do.
I think the wall to wall coverage is exploitative and sensationalistic, as many posters do. But someone is watching it!
Greta may give herself a bad name for hyping a "tabloid" story, and she may deserve it, but the people encouraging this by giving her great ratings are the ones I'd blame.
I've been wondering how she comes up with such excellent questions during her missing-cheerleader shows, but never once managed to ask a single good one during the entire Clinton impeachment scandal.
No doubt. And I'm not saying that's a bad thing. Just because it's news doesn't mean it's also a business..
My sister is glued to this story.
The only way that I know about it is because of posts on Free Republic. My husband and I don't watch much news programs, let alone the extended stuff throughout the night on Fox of CNN.
Nothing like a good tragedy and the endless reporting of it, to make people happy...
Agreed!
You don't understand the constant coverage? As you are obviously a constant viewer, that's puzzling.
Not defending Greta at all...the only thing I catch on occasion is Brit Hume...but she's just tapping into something that appeals to a lot of people: a who-done-it.
She's also doing it at a time when the other channels are slogging through the quagmire ;) of Rove & Roberts.
A criminal mystery beats a political misery every time...
I have not watched one minute of Natalee coverage. I do however see a bunch of 30 second updates in my other viewings and promos for upcoming shows that evening and what they are going to be discussing about Natalee. No change in 2 months.
LOL
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