Does it piss you off that there's more coverage on the Ramsey case than on the Middle Eastern conflict?

Question

Hate to say it but the media only focuses on the story because JonBenet was a white, blond, rich child.

I am a little tired of the coverage on the Middle East, but there are much more important issues in the world that do not receive as much attention, and that isn't right.

I can't believe this. Some of you guys don't believe that there was only coverage on JonBenet because she was a pretty white child? There was a black girl about the same age that was killed around the same time JonBenet was and there was NO coverage. Explain that. What about Natalie Holloway?

It is tragic that the child died. Somebody would be crazy if they weren't sad a young child died, but we cannot focus solely on this case when so many others are missing.

Answer 1

why is she on the news now? didn't she die in 1996 or 1997? thats 10 years ago.

Answer 2

It was a horrible crime that the media caught on too, but you know what? A child murderer and rapist has been caught (hopefully this isn't a false confession) and no amount of media can be too much for that. Although the TV only shows what it wants and the newspapers only print what they want, the internet provides links to everything. You can choose what to read, if you ignore the big story at the top. Next week, the war will still going on, and Yahoo news always has a story in it's top ten about it.


And to let you know, a big story here in Texas is that the man responsible for many of the deaths of Mexican and Hispanic women around our border has been a larger focus than that of JonBenet. His crimes are publicized daily, hundreds of women dead. Our local news can stay focused.

Answer 3

Well, I don't think that there is more coverage on the Ramsy case than the middle Eastern conflict, I think the only reason the Ramsy case gets more coverage because it's more current news. And it;s a 10 year old case. Plus the ltttle girl was a very poppular girl. It's like when the Middle eastern conflict had more coverage that the war in Iraq because, It was more current news. Eventually the Ramsey case will start to lose attention and get boring. So I don't think that you shopuld get piss off. But the middle East Conflict is a very horrible thing that is happending.

Answer 4

I don't think that they are focusing on the JonBenet Ramsey case because the was rich, white and blond...I think that they are focusing in on it because it is a horrible murder that happened to a little girl and it is a murder mystery. I don't think that race or money has anything to do with it. I think that it is bringing to light the very real problem of sickos that prey on little kids...it is no suprise that a child rapist would find a teaching job in a country that is known as a vacation destination for child rapists. The whole thing makes me want to vommit.

Answer 5

No not at all. If I want to see, read and hear about the ME then it is there either on the PC or TV and even the radio. You just have to look some place besides CNN or FOX Neither of these are very good any way. The main stream media is a business and has to make a profit. If you want people to pay then sell them what they want. That is why so many people buy fiction books. The news about the ME is there just look for it.

Answer 6

I never understood the fascination with that little girl ten years ago - I'm sorry she died a horrible death, but children go missing and die in this country every day! Why does one or the other get special media attention? Money, I know, but still, you're right, in the BIG scope of things, there are more important issues at hand.

Answer 7

Not really. I'm tired of the bias, lefty, anti-American coverage anyway. There is not more coverage of the Ramsey case wait a few days and the media will good right back to covering the middle east.
The rest of your statement I have no comment on, it's just race baiting.

Answer 8

no it doesn't piss me off. the middle east is always fighting and we're used to it, whereas the ramsey case has been a big deal here for 10 years. i'm glad they finally made an arrest and that it could be solved. and no i don't think the media is focusing on it just b/c she was a blond, rich white child, but b/c she was a child that could have been anyone's little girl and it reminded us how vulnerable we are in our own homes.

Answer 9

As Al Franken put it, the media today suffers from a "Laziness-bias." They fill air time beating the dead horse of the of the Jon Benet Ramsey case, rather than covering the start of WWIII, becuase it's much easier to cover. I mean, to cover a war -- a real war -- you have to send correspondants overseas, put them in harms way, and get decent footage. To cover a murder case, like Ramsey or OJ or anyone else, all you have to do is show stock footage and old photos and have any jackass spout off their opinions for thirty seconds at a time. Today's journalists are lazy, that's all.

Answer 10

I'm gonna guess that a) people are burnt out on the whole Middle Eastern conflict; b) people are taken by a ten-year-old murder mystery POSSIBLY being resolved; c) the Middle Eastern conflict has quieted down in the last 3 days; and d) people are burnt out on the whole Middle Eastern conflict.

However, you're right on the white, blond, and rich thing.....

Answer 11

Not at all. Some 6 year old girl was sexullay assaulted and murdered in her home. After 10 years, justice is due to her and her family. If that were my daughter, I would want that closure...

And I just saw your details..."white, blonde, rich child". That's pretty stereotypical of you. the poor CHILD is dead. Her life was robbed from her and all the money in the world can't change that.