# The Natalee Holloway story is really not that important

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-natalee-holloway-story-is-really-not-that-important/309301>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 22, 2005, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-natalee-holloway-story-is-really-not-that-important/309301 "2005-06-22T02:58:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-natalee-holloway-story-is-really-not-that-important/309301/21 "2005-06-22T21:10:20Z")

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Oh come on, Holloway didn’t entirely drown out other reports of important world affairs.

There was that boy scout missing in Utah, too.

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**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-natalee-holloway-story-is-really-not-that-important/309301/22 "2005-06-22T23:15:03Z")

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> [@AugestWest](#):
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> Everyone has a sister or daughter or cousin or neighbor or somebody who we’d miss if they were unexpectedly killed. TV thrives on shared experience.

Except that this is a _hypothetically_ shared experience, i.e. a morbid fantasy. The _actual_ shared experience that is being completely ignored is that we would all hate to have a thousand satellite trucks trying to get into our driveway and gumming up our neighborhood while we’re trying to deal with a private family emergency.

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**Author:** ![5que](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/3bc359/32.png) [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-natalee-holloway-story-is-really-not-that-important/309301/23 "2005-06-23T14:47:57Z")

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> [@hajario](#):
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> Not for the journalists who are stuck there and have to turn in some sort of story every day to keep getting paid.

“Based on an Anonymous Source, I have spent the last two weeks scuba diving, searching the coral reefs off Aruba for any sign of the missing teen. I will continue to dive each day until the resolution of this crisis. Back to you in the studio.”

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