Reply #29: This is a story sensationalized by the media - why buy into it? [View All]

[BushOut06]

The media made a huge deal over it because she was a cute white girl from a rich family, and because of the whole beauty pageant angle. If Jon Benet had been some poor black girl from the projects, would we have heard anything about this? Hell, if she had been a white girl from a poor family living in a trailer park, chances are we wouldnt have heard much about it.

It's not that we don't care about the girl herself. Of course we all want to see justice done. What you're seeing here is the complete and utter disgust with the way the media hypes these stories. Every time a pretty young white girl is missing, it becomes national news. Yet we never hear about the less attractive women who disappear, or the young black or Hispanic women who go missing. Children are murdered in this country all the time, and it's a huge tragedy. Hell, it's a tragedy when ANY child is killed, regardless of where and why.