Prosecutors On Dad's Rage Killing Rage

Yes, and we heard people apologizing for their behavior and excuses being made. Answer my question, why was the case of the stabbings last week put on the back burner? This woman stabbed her kids over 150 times each and the media did all they could to downplay the story. This Hobbs dirtbag was a career criminal. This should be expected. A mother kills her children and it is not a big story. Turns out this woman had another child die a few years ago and there will be an investigation on that as well. Where is the coverage? I am not saying one is worse than the other, I just smell a rat when things get killed in the press.

There was no real media attention given to the manhunt. The attention came after the bodies were found.

And it was a 'whodunit'. The girls went missing late Sunday and were found less than 12 hours later so, by the time the story found its way to print media and the cables were back in biz after the weekend, it was a Small Town Mother's Day Murder Story Mystery. Daddy turns out to be a creepy-looking ex-con with a hair trigger temper. And what makes the story more awful (and more marketable to a larger audience) is the fact that the little girl's best friend was also murdered. That captures the imagination/ attention of people who know they would never murder their own children. Driving the story after the whodunit was solved is the quest for motive and more background on the perp....and, I would think, questions as to why the family had been so forgiving of Hobbs past transgressions.

By comparison, the Vasilev story appears to be a re-run of the Andrea Yates/ Susan Smith story with nothing 'fresh' to make the story interesting.

Like it or not, marketability plays a big role in determining how much exposure a given story receives.

I understand that aspect of the story. I know that some stories don't have legs. The press gives other stories their legs. The Vasilev story had a lot of questions that could have been answered and the press buried the whole thing. Nothing to see here, move along.

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