Re: the big search
Howard, on host 216.80.147.126
Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 17:58:19
Re: the big search posted by ChrisA on Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 17:43:39:
> > But you never hear about anything unrelated to the shuttle. That is strange. I know the searchers are focused, but they aren't blind. > > This doesn't mean that nothing is found. The searchers are focussed, but the newspapers are far more so. The searchers may well be finding other things, but the newspapers couldn't care less. Also, if some of the illicit things you mentioned were found, would the press be informed? > > Chris"cynical when discussing the media"A
Good point. People in the media decide what they want to report. I have heard some discussion lately about how they will report on missing people like Elizabeth Smart and ignore hundreds of others. I think there has to be something about a story that will catch the attention of the public. Elizabeth Smart was young, beautiful, and wealthy. Laci Peterson, young, beautiful, and pregnant. Most of us could disappear and get no more that a small article on page 4, or 30 seconds on the local news. Howard
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