Laci and Lori....I have had enough already!

[lottie244]

Sorry is I sound so ugly here but I simply can't understand why our media makes so much over these dysfunctional family affairs when dozens of kids go missing in my neighborhood and so many struggling women are abused by miserable spouses and it never even makes the local news. On top of that, our soldiers are being killed every day...905 and I haven't seen the attention given to one of them (except of course the trumped up story about Jessica Lynch) or their families. The pattern of media coverage proves that America is still a victim of its own racism and classism.

[BattyDem]

1. I know what you mean

I'm very, very sorry for these women and their families ... but it's not national news!

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Yep.

[TrustingDog]

3. Yep 2.

[K-W]

4. Dont apologize.

You are right. It is absolutely ludacris.

There are real things going on in our society that have large effects on everyones quality of living, and they dont get reported.

[mountainvue]

12. Spousal abuse doesn't

"have large effects on everyones quality of living"? did you hear that the Rape Shield Law in Colorado was circumvented today for Kobe Bryant so his attorneys can bring in evidence about the victim's sex life?
Yeah, this is boring news. I don't want to hear this shit. they're just WOMEN.:puke:
While we're at it, lets stop covering the missing children stories too.

[K-W]

14. That isnt what I said at all.

This ONE event is what I referred to. Not spousal abuse in general.

Or didnt I make that clear in that I never in any way shape or form referred to or mentioned spousal abuse? Spousal abuse would be one of the many problems in this country that goes ignored while we hear about the case of ONE instance of it.

[kiahzero]

16. Not quite

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/10/national/main616427.shtml

The judge ruled the way he did because the evidence was not merely to slander the alleged victim: it was relevant evidence for Bryant to make his case. Keep in mind, this is the same judge that put a gag order on the media, to keep them from discussing the evidence.

But feel free to insist that everyone that disagrees with you is sexist.

[misanthrope]

13. Its "ludicrous"**nt

nm

[NightOwwl]

5. Because they are pretty.

Sorry to say, but I think that's the reason. I haven't seen much on Lori, but look at Laci and Scott. She had a killer smile and Scott's a very good looking guy.

Compare O.J. and Nicole to Robert Blake and Bonnie Blakely. No one cares about Blake or Blakely.

It doesn't surprise me. We are a superficial country who elects a president based upon who we'd rather go have a beer with.

[madinmaryland]

7. Actually,

I'd rather have a beer or two with Clinton than *. At least then I could have an intelligent conversation with someone and could learn something on top of that. :-)

[NightOwwl]

9. Me too.

:toast:

[TeeYiYi]

6. The Lori story is getting pretty creepy . . .

. . . I predict they're going to find her body in pieces at the local landfill tomorrow. Hope I'm wrong.

TYY

[medeak]

15. agree

love you honey...by the way..what's going on with the fires? jeesh...it's like ELF is going manic?

[TeeYiYi]

21. They're searching the landfill . . .

. . . with cadaver dogs. This will all be over soon. :(

BTW--->> They've ruled out ELF for that second fire.

TYY:hi:

[Murdock]

8. I couldn't agree more..

What happened to all the coverage of Afghanistan? Remember right after the launch of the Afghan War all networks were cover to cover Afghanistan, now nary a mention is made and I cannot even remember the last U.S. news program to broadcast from there, and yet.. Night after night.. hour after hour we get each and every single detail of the Peterson trial, and Michael Jackson, Kobe Bryant or whatever the scandal/tabloid de jour is at the given time.

[senseandsensibility]

10. I agree

It's really indefensible. The media makes these choices about which lives are worthy of their coverage, and they all seem to be (gasp!) white and middle class. The only positive aspect of it that I can see is that it does highlight spousal abuse, and the continued violence against women in this country.

[mountainvue]

11. Spousal abuse.

Yes, it should be covered. We shouldn't just make it go away.

[uhhuh]

17. they are not covering spousal abuse

They are over emphasising the most minute details of one case where spousal abuse may or may not have been a factor.

If one newswhore were to go on tv and do an in depth report about spousal abuse as an aside to a Laci/Scott story, then what you say may be relevant, but this case has become a cartoon at worst, and a bad episode of Law and Order at best.

None of endless reports about this case address the impact of the crime, but rather the lurid details and actions of the opposing sides in the courtroom.

No matter how invested emotionally anyone is in this trial, no matter how many people believe Peterson is innocent or guilty, only 12 people are going to make that decision.

When it's over, they will find another voyeuristic soap opera trial to force on america and not ever ever ever focus on what the causes of these kind of crimes are.

They are metaphorically filming someone throwing a brick into someone's face over and over, and not even considering asking why.

They're even throwing the brick into our own face, and we are expected to keep coming back to see if the texture has changed.

This kind of coverage is not designed to open any kind of debate on the nature of these kind of cases. These reports are designed for the viewer to pick a team and follow that team to the end of the game, and then, when it's over, here's another two teams. Get your pennants out everybody!!!

[Disturbed]

18. Voyerism/Sensationalism

It is entertainment not news. TV Media does this because they get good ratings with this stuff. It's about the money.

[Lindacooks]

19. A 70 year old man in my area has been missing for months

and after the first day or two, there has been no mention of him in the media at all.

They found his roommate (an ex-con) in his stolen car a few days after he disappeared, and there was apparently 'an enormous' amount of blood evidence in his apartment. I do tend to agree that unless the person is young and attractive the media doesn't report much beyond the basics.

[Flubadubya]

20. "Classism"... (did I just coin a word?)

If these people lived in a trailer next to the railroad track on the bad side of town, their story would get no further than their own squalid neighborhood.

The people in question are typically white, attractive, upper to higher middle class people (remember Elizabeth Smart?).

It is also the newly evolved tabloid nature of mainstream media. I remember when yellow journalism was in a class all by itself. Now yellow journalism rules the day! :eyes: