August 20, 2006
"Karr started with a pate, then had a green salad with walnut dressing. The main course was fried king prawn..."
Have we all gone crazy? What's with all this news coverage? Dateline: ABOARD THAI AIRWAYS TO LOS ANGELES.
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Pate is nothing other than a glorified meat loaf.
Honest.
Peace, Maxine
What else is there to type about in a 15 hour flight?
Sounds like a typical business class international meal to me. It would be news if he had peanut butter and jelly, Fritos, and milk.
Summer 2001 had two main events, it was 'Summer of the Shark' and 'Gary Condit/Chandra Levy'.
So maybe this represents a 'return to normalcy'.
It's amazing how quickly a war in the SW Asia could be ignored when important stuff like a reportedly gender dismorphic, child-murderer groupie pops up.
Maybe it's just a sign that media outlets are desperate to get back to its pre-9/11 glory of 'true crimes' and 'killer animals'.
(plus this hurricane season (thankfully) has been a complete bust so far)
One news channel (I believe it was Fox) had a "news alert" on how the plane was within one hour of landing in the U.S.
I can only assume that that entire whole middle east problem thingy was solved overnight and this was the most important issue going on.
Hey, every dog has his day.
Dang, I think I'll confess to the Kennedy assassination. Just think how famous that will make me for a few days. (yeah, I was one year old at the time, but if I lie about my age it will take them a few days to figure it out.) Or maybe I will confess to driving the white Fiat Uno that the French police say they found paint from on Princess Diana's car.
Hmmm... wonder if I should spill the beans about where they can find Jimmy Hoffa.... Heck, maybe I'll just tell them I AM Jimmy Hoffa. And Elvis is my gardener.
Maxine: I prefer foie gras to pate, but that's just me.
Eli: You are NOT Jimmy Hoffa. My dad IS.
- munching prawns while reading Lolita carefully concealed in a newspaper....
Today everyone has 900 well defined seconds of fame.
The coverage is insane. Does anybody really follow this story so obsessively?!
I guess it's cheaper to do screeching alerts on this weirdo than to send reporters out to the hinterlands to actual report world events.
I heard that the idea of pampering him was to soften him up and get him talking.
It's to keep you from tuning in to a rival news network.
The news audience is soap opera women (40% of women), which is the biggest bloc audience you can attract day-in and day-out, news or no news, whose eyeballs you sell to advertisers.
People who want hard news don't want it unless there's news, so they cannot support the news business. The won't watch every day.
Neither men, nor most women, like being addressed as women, but enough do to support the news business.
So soap opera women edit the nation's news, and take over all the terrain. No story will air that will lose their interest.
The news channels are not the incompetents they seem to be. They're the survivors.
My own solution is ridicule of the audience. You can't shame the purveyors.
"The coverage is insane. Does anybody really follow this story so obsessively?!"--patca
This doesn't hold a candle to the Mel Gibson stuff.
Peace, Maxine
Humm... sitting on a plane in first class for 15 hours versus sitting in a ditch, dodging rockets in Lebanon.
I know which assignment I'd take.
Nationally, the coverage is bad. Locally, it is insane.
What is going to be quite humorous is how the Boulder police get him to the Boulder jail in the next 10 days. The current guess is by chartered jet to JeffCo Airport, into a closed hanger, and hence 25 miles to Boulder in a van with heavily tinted window. I would also expect that they would run decoys, and that the press corp may start hanging around that airport shortly - which means that DIA may be a better bet, given the much higher security level there (JeffCo is much smaller, and provides little security - so would be fairly easy for them to stake out).
So, so far, we have heard from psychiatrists about Karr's state of mind, hand writing experts about the differences between and simularities with his HS yearbook, his "confession", etc.
Heck, the CO press hasn't had this much fun since Koby Bryant (I actually had to go to the Eagle Cty. courthouse during that fiasco).
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