Pardon me for a moment while I vent some serious frustration. I know I’m about a month late on this and that a google search on the topic will yield thousands of bloggers with the same opinion, but I just have to get this off my chest.

<rant>I know that this is an established bit of Americana, but could someone tell me please why mass media insists on latching on to some rich kid’s personal tragedy and dragging it out for months on end under the pretense of journalism?! Every time I see that Holloway girl’s face on the news, I want to puke! The kids dead, okay? It’s sad, yes. It’s mysterious, I suppose. But it stopped being news after the first report. It’s been two months and she’s still making headline news. GAAAH!!

Civil rights groups are up in arms (and I feel rightly so) about the fact that the rich, pretty, blonde, white girl has been headline news for months, but literally hundreds of poor, minority kids go missing every week and are lucky if they make it onto a milk carton. The media coverage has even ruffled the feathers of some media watchdogs who say the disproportionate coverage is bad journalism (*gasp*).

This morning, while peacefully munching my Cheerios, I was driven to rage and was thiiiis close to putting a .25 caliber slug in my TV when Good Morning America ran yet another Holloway story. That alone, was maddening, but not ragening (no, it’s not a real word, but it should be). The rage came when I switched over to CBS only to find them running a story on… SCOTT PETERSON!!! AAAHHHHH!!!!
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Thanks, I feel much better now.