John "who gives a damn" K.
As morbidly fascinating as this guy is as a case study, the only reason we've even heard his name is because JonBenet wasn't chubby, a boy, or a minority. I'm disgusted at the amount of coverage this is getting considering how many people go missing now, rather than dying 10 years ago.
An average of 2.27 coaltion soldiers die in Iraq per day. Is an admittedly tragic end to an innocent girl 10 years ago more important than 16 young men and women dying per week now? What about all the other missing children who aren't white blonde girls, do they count? Do missing adults even register?
Maybe this nutcase did it and maybe he didn't. Obviously I hope they catch the killer and punish him accordingly. But outside of basic human decency, I don't care who killed that little girl, and it shouldn't be front page news if none of the others are.
posted by RWBB @ 8/22/2006 04:44:00 PM
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I'm with ya on this one...Hundreads of poor black children are murdered in the Chicago area every year, and it hardly even makes the front page of the local news (and many of these are much more horrific crimes than what happened in Boulder)RIch white girls always grab the headlines...they always will too
-Big Sexy
There was an NPR piece recently about how the aerial cuisine of one 10-years-gone killer is breaking news, but coverage of the 27 daily US military personnel that return in coffins is literally blacked out by the govt, is evidence that the news is broken.
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