Worldwide interest
This email came Friday on the criticism in the paper of the Natalee Holloway case.
It is from Switzerland. The "junk news" reference is to Rosemary Roberts' Friday column.
It's not that I completely disagree with your commentary
on the Holloway media coverage, but to call it "junk news" and
comment on it the way you have done is callous and insensitive. Just imagine if it were your daughter... Find a better way to give your opinion -- follow the golden rule "treat other people as I would want to be treated" and ask yourself if that commentary reflects that, if it were your child...
Tamara Minick-Scokalo (US citizen)
This I'm writing in response. Wow. Who knew we had an audience in Switzerland.
Tamara:
I won't presume to speak for Rosemary Roberts, to whom I've forwarded your note. But the problem is not so much the criticism of the Holloway coverage -- or lack of sympathy for the family -- as it is concern with how, in fact, some media have exploited the plight of families such as the Holloways for ratings through ongoing "true crime" mysteries.
It's titillating. It's cheap. And it's easier to do than pieces on the war and health care.
And it still raises the issue of how certain missing people are anointed as national news while the vast majority are not.
Thanks for your note and we appreciate your reading us.
Sincerely
Allen Johnson
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Allen, I agree with you entirely. This is tabloid journalism using electronic means. This is a legitimate local news story; but it does not have the standing to be a serious national or international story. An isolated instance of a crime committed, or a single missing person, just doesn't qualify.
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Joe, what is ironic about all this is that many of the most prolific sinners paused briefly to search their souls on the Missing Woman Syndrome, acknowledged a clear problem in under-reporting missing men and women of color, then picked up where they left off with the Natalee Holloway overkill.
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