Natalee Holloway Case Isn't News

Came across this today for your reading. Also, apparently some are discussing the case on a post from last week. Feel free to discuss it here.

Comments

[Kat_Gram]

You go girl ! !

Famous words..."One day, I will explain exactly what happened, but, right now, I don’t feel ready to do that."

Who does this Joran think he is ?

He probably hasn't been sent the script yet ! !

[TJ]

Kat Gram, you look a lot like Betbitch. Are you Bethbitch??? Do you also use botox everyday??? You are a very low person just like the persons who run Lousy Monkeys... Wonder how SM will spin Nat at the lobby 3.15 AM May 30 2005. You people are so lousy and low. But your time is up. Nat will be found soon dead or alive. Go back to your Alabama cave, troll!!!

[COLUMBO]

JL:

that's the one

[strayze]

The Holloway case is an intriguing mystery, both for the intensive search efforts have failed, and the less than adequate investigation by the Aruban authorities. The result is that the public is interested in following the outcome, each step of the way. Unfortunately in the blogworld, people's intense emotions are let loose on other bloggers, and instant (negative) conclusions are drawn from totally erroneous assumptions about each action, or each piece of evidence. Where has open-mindedness gone? Instead of being frustrated with main forces at play, the frustration is turned upon fellow bloggers, the likes of which I've never seen. That turns me off fast.- - - Over at refugees, there is a thread based upon the assumption that John Q Kelley, the Twitty's lawyer for the civil action - - is a "prosecutor", and speculation as to whether the true prosecuter in the criminal case in Aruba, is Kelley's "coprosecutor" for the civil case. It's a topsy turvy world in Natalee blogland. This idea may very well have been picked up by talking mouths on MSM.
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[Fab]

@ staryze

I Totally agree.
take a look at this presentation about the future media life by the musean of media history.

http://mccd.udc.es/orihuela/epic/ols-master.html

Are we heading towards this? Specially the very last part!
I certainly hope not!

[strayze]

Fab, Thanks for the link. Very interesting. I'm afraid that what passes as MSM these days is narrow-minded, petty, and trivial. No longer are sources questioned. This is rather alarming, since our mainstay to a workable democracy is the Fourth Estate, which seems to have gone south. Instead of solid facts, we are bombarded with exhitionist drivel and gossip. The gossip is relayed by MSM as factoids.

Strayze

[DennisAOK]

No doubt some people get carrried away in attacking Aruba, but the Aruban people are bearing the burden of a botched police investigation. Had the case been quickly resolved, the story would have disappeared after a week or so with little damage to Aruba.

Regarding Mary Shaw's article, most people don't expect cable news to be comprehensive or objective. It focuses on certain human interest stories. Keith Olbermann is extremely liberal. He doesn't present news; he editorializes. So does Bill O'Reilly. So what? If you want serious news, use the print medium, which is better suited for it: no time constraints; no commercial interruptions; ability to pick and choose topics of interest. Cronkite and Murrow may have been appropriate for an era that had few news alternatives, but today we do.

Most major newspapers today in America are also corporations. Business form is irrelevant. Most of these complaints come from journalists who think their profession should be "above" commericalism. It isn't. Ratings matter. Give the public what it wants or suffer the consequences. Or find another public.

[jim]

my opinion:
No American should go to aruba until the case is solved.

I bet the case would be solved really fast if Americans would boycott Aruba!