So I turn on MSNBC to see what’s going on. I like to leave a news channel running in the background when I am doing other things.
And the first thing I hear is (paraphrase)“The American public is captivated with disappearances. Between Natalee Holloway and Patrick Kit McDermott, Olivia Newton-John’s boyfriend who disappeared, the public cannot get enough.”
Actually, we can. We did. The issue is you just won’t shut the hell up about these stories.
It’s quite true. Oh well, its not like there is anything important gonig on in the world. I mean, if there was a war or genocide or anything bad happening, I’m sure all of their resources would be there.
Some people are captivated. As noted, Greta Van Susteren is making a killing by turning her show into “All Natalee, All the Timee.” It doesn’t leave me feeling good about people or the news media.
Stephan Colbert: “Including this Mother, constantly scouring the island of Aruba for her missing daughter”
Jon Stewart: “That’s actually Greta Van Sustren. She a reporter”
Colbert: “No. Only a grieving mother would have such a single-minded obsession with Natliee Halloway”
I don’t even feel sorry for the parents any more. It seems obvious they’re milking the talk shows for all they’re worth. I could swear that the family is living in Alan Comb’s Dressing room(what, you think Hannity would share?).
Amazing the level of coverage the cable news networks give to this bilge.
I just spent a week in Maine vacationing and being unplugged, with no Internet access and almost nothing in the way of media access. Yet, I somehow heard about the continuing “cute missing white girl syndrome.”
Count me among the non-captivated, but unable to avoid.
I started a thread about this a few weeks ago in which I asked, “So what’s the demographic watching this stuff?”
The question was never really answered and I’m not sure anyone even tried to answer it; a number of posters just piled on saying “I don’t watch it! It sucks!” But I am still really curious; someone is watching it. Who?
My grandpa…he fell asleep in front of the tube again. And my dad, he wandered away from the TV and left it on MSNBC. And Cindy Sheehan is watching the Holloway coverage and Holloway-Twitty is watching the Sheehan coverage. And neither one of those women will ever get over the loss of their children whoring themselves out to the media.
My wife claims the TV news is only watched by, and is therefore aimed at, paranoid, 70-year-old, white folk, which is why it is full of missing white folk, why this medicine will kill you, and why robot attacks* are on the rise. Is there any truth to that characterization of its demographic?
Yesterday I happened to be flipping channels and where I live, CNN, MSNBC and FOX are right next to each other in the chanel lineup. As I flipped through them, all three were talking about the missing white girl in aruba.
I couldn’t help but think something is very wrong with the world.