I’m sorry Gus, but it’s not just usually “flip, glib, dumb young males” saying this but a lot of people who are sick of media feeding frenzies in general. I generally can’t stand to watch U.S. news coverage anymore since they hit the same top stories over and over again.

And it’s not just the attention lavished on this story in leau of covering starving or missing children. Fortunately, some media outlets are taking the opportunity to examine tourist safety in such situations as cruise lines where people have gone missing recently. My wife has expressed a concern about this herself. People traveling in foreign jurisdictions, even foreigners traveling in the U.S., need to be aware of the fact that they’re outside of their nationality.

I’m surprised as to your opinion of the Halloway case because it comes across as the joke on Frazier where Niles bemoans his aggressive wife being arrested for assaulting an officer: “The upper class white woman can’t get a fair shake in the United States today!!!” It’s almost now a running joke even in moderate leftist circles.