Posted on 06/28/2005 7:25:08 PM PDT by Bombardier
Is it just me or is anyone else tired of the cable news channels taking twelve hours out of a twenty-four hour day to spend talking about the blonde girl who disappeared in Aruba? I feel very bad for her parents, but to be very frank, it's been what? A month? We all know the Aruban cops make the Keystone Kops look like Lenny Briscoe, we already know that the Dutch legal system is essentially useless, and we all have theories about this girl's disappearance that range from the plausible to the utterly weird. What else do we need to know? Has any new USEFUL information been brought out?
Is anyone else ready for Fox, CNN, MSNBC and the rest to go back to covering real news, or do you still want to get the satellite transmissions of Geraldo's, Greta's and whoever-else's Caribbean "working vacation"? I know I'm ready for real news, what about the rest of you?
At least since the O.J. Simpson trial cable TV has discovered that manufacturing an ongoing soap opera - runaway bride, murder in Aruba, child molesting freak celebrity - draws viewers for the whole span of the story. Don't blame the networks. Blame the audience.
It's time for another "child stuck in a well" episode.
I am utterly disgusted by this tabloid crap about missing people (mainly blonde girls/women), and court trials.</p>
It is bizarre how they zoom in on one case and dwell on it hour after hour after hour. I don't understand how the public doesn't get tired of it.
As long as this stuff gets ratings, there is going to be a "crime of the month" thing on cable news.
I spend alot less time with the television as a result.
There's just nothing to talk about 90% of the time, but that doesn't stop them somehow.
It's just the latest story where we're on a first name basis with the person in question---Chandra, Laci and now Natalee. For whatever reason, people will watch these things for hours and days on end, so that's what gets shown.
It's a business. Just buy the cars, insurance, and other consumer items and no one will get hurt. Actually that's one of my big gripes, that all television news, cable or otherwise, is garbage. Fox included. Our local station is just a combo police blotter/auto showroom. The very K-Mart of anything newsworthy.
> Is it just me or is anyone else tired of the cable news
> channels taking twelve hours out of a twenty-four hour
> day to spend talking about the blonde girl who
> disappeared in Aruba?
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It isn't just you.
There is virtually no news to report, but they keep talking about it. Wake me up when there is something for them to say.
Leave Geraldo permanently in Aruba, and bring everybody else home to cover real news.
It's not just you.
Trust me.
No, it's not just you. People go "missing" all the time--both here and in other countries. Unfortunately, it would appear that the msm needs a sensational story a month for ratings and she was the winner this week.
It's not you. Because there have been so many legal controversies - going back to chandra Levy - in the news, it has become an industry to employ ambulance chasers on the cable news channels. I am sick to death of it and am thankful for talk radio and NRA News for keeping the important stuff going.
Oh yeah, we have not have "a child in well" media circus for a long time.
You don't see it?
Blonde blue eyed:
Girl (Natalee)
Mother
Aunt
ad nausum
Step Father named "JUG" (come on, If I wrote the story and named the step father "JUG" you would be all over me).
Black Guys being blamed falsely for the crime.
Searches.
Rewards
Greta and Geraldo vying for camera time.
1/2 of Fox news network in Aruba
Mark Furman
This is the dream story!!!!!!
You have the choice of not watching.
Meanwhile, I'm pretty happy not to see Michael Jackson anymore, or Tom Cruise jumping around on Oprah...
Its not you...but sometimes it is good to turn off the TV and go for a walk.
Take a break from it all. :)
The media just beats stuff like this to death! When I'm watching the news and stories like the Michael Jackson trial, which is over, thank the Lord, and the girl from Aruba come on, I find something else to watch.
The story about the little boy who got lost hiking was about the only one I kept on, especially when he was found.
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