The minute-by-minute coverage of recent events that might, or might not, shed light on a nearly ten-year-old murder case illustrates the news media’s fetish about beautiful dead girls. Actually, since TV news is ratings-driven, the fetish is probably our own.
Over on Daily Kos, there’s a different perspective, and it’s worth a look: some beautiful dead girls who haven’t had the same kind of media and public attention:
We hear a lot about beautiful dead girls in the US media. Here are some that we haven’t heard about much. Their smiles haven’t been plastered over the supermarket tabloid press, and they’re not likely to be. One of the reasons is that they don’t fit the popular stereotype of beautiful-woman-as-helpless-victim.
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