JonBenet Ramsey 24/7: Here We Go Again

2006-08-20
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The brutal murder of 6-year old JonBenet Ramsey on Christmas night in 1966 shocked America. The JonBenet murder was a staple of tabloid TV for months and years.

 

Since then there have been many other missing and murdered wealthy white girls to capture the interest of the media. After more than a year the cable news outlets have finally stopped covering the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.

 

All of a sudden, like a blast from the past, the JonBenet murder mystery is once again all over the airwaves, thanks to the arrest of former schoolteacher John Karr in Thailand. He told authorities he was with JonBenet in her Boulder home when she died 10 years ago, but claims her death was an accident.

 

John Karr is a sick an twisted individual with a penchant for marrying child brides, but there is absolutely no forensic or circumstantial evidence that he had anything to do with the murder of JonBenet.

 

But of course the media isn’t going to let an opportunity pass by to once again air those sickening videos of 6-year old JonBenet all dolled up like a miniature prostitute.

 

Why doesn’t FOX News, CNN & MSNBC air pictures of JonBenet that show her as a normal little girl, why do they feel compelled to broadcast photographs and video of her dressed up like a little whore?

 

I’m convinced that one or both of JonBenet’s parents are responsible for her murder. This is my opinion, her parents never been charged with her death, and there is no hard evidence to convict them.

 

But even if JonBenet’s parents are not directly responsible for her death, they are still indirectly liable because they dressed their daughter like a floozy and coached her to act like a temptress.

 

Dressing a 6-year old girl like a grown woman may have won her many beauty contests, but it also exposed her to the attention of dangerous pedophiles.

 

A grown man who is convicted of possessing child pornography and who is obsessed with little girls is reprehensible, but parents who pimp their 6-year old daughter and thereby place her in danger are even more reprehensible.

 

Aren’t we at war in Iraq and Afghanistan? Aren’t Lebanon and Israel in a tenuous cease-fire that could explode at any moment? The cable news stations need to get their priorities in order, a disturbed loser like John Karr doesn’t merit any coverage.

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  • DadWithGirls

    Robert Paul Reyes, while I agree with your criticisms of modern mainstream journalism, you have sadly overestimated both the attention span and the political acumen of the American public.

    Given a choice between 24 x 7 coverage of Iraq’s civil war, Lebanon’s ethnic cleansing, or anything “breaking news on” JonBenet… ?

    Gotta go with the little dead tarted up babydoll!

    Sorry. (What ever happened to “if it bleeds, it leads?” Guess those 3,600 Iraqui civilians killed in July don’t count. But when your embedded journalists can’t leave the Green Zone, it’s hard to cover actual reality…)

    That’s the American way of filtering the consequences of Empire.

    (If JonBenet had been a murdered Iraqui pre-pubescent beauty queen, do you think it would have made all this bank?)

    Errr… journalistic importance?

  • DadWithGirls

    Robert Paul Reyes, while I agree with your criticisms of modern mainstream journalism, you have sadly overestimated both the attention span and the political acumen of the American public.

    Given a choice between 24 x 7 coverage of Iraq’s civil war, Lebanon’s ethnic cleansing, or anything “breaking news on” JonBenet… ?

    Gotta go with the little dead tarted up babydoll!

    Sorry. (What ever happened to “if it bleeds, it leads?” Guess those 3,600 Iraqui civilians killed in July don’t count. But when your embedded journalists can’t leave the Green Zone, it’s hard to cover actual reality…)

    That’s the American way of filtering the consequences of Empire.

    (If JonBenet had been a murdered Iraqui pre-pubescent beauty queen, do you think it would have made all this bank?)

    Errr… journalistic importance?

  • DadWithGirls

    Robert Paul Reyes, while I agree with your criticisms of modern mainstream journalism, you have sadly overestimated both the attention span and the political acumen of the American public.

    Given a choice between 24 x 7 coverage of Iraq’s civil war, Lebanon’s ethnic cleansing, or anything “breaking news on” JonBenet… ?

    Gotta go with the little dead tarted up babydoll!

    Sorry. (What ever happened to “if it bleeds, it leads?” Guess those 3,600 Iraqui civilians killed in July don’t count. But when your embedded journalists can’t leave the Green Zone, it’s hard to cover actual reality…)

    That’s the American way of filtering the consequences of Empire.

    (If JonBenet had been a murdered Iraqui pre-pubescent beauty queen, do you think it would have made all this bank?)

    Errr… journalistic importance?

  • Hal

    dudwithgirls is a Kos blog troll, and he agrees with you Reyes. Happy now?

  • Hal

    dudwithgirls is a Kos blog troll, and he agrees with you Reyes. Happy now?

  • Hal

    dudwithgirls is a Kos blog troll, and he agrees with you Reyes. Happy now?

  • DadWithGirls

    Who’s Koss, Hal?

    Your alter-ego?

    The one who can actually think and write well?

  • DadWithGirls

    Who’s Koss, Hal?

    Your alter-ego?

    The one who can actually think and write well?

  • DadWithGirls

    Who’s Koss, Hal?

    Your alter-ego?

    The one who can actually think and write well?

  • Toubrouk

    This is what I have called a “Media-Blackout”. For the next few weeks, the mass-media will lose some substantial airtime by schooling us about everything related to JonBenet Ramsey’s murder.

    It’s not the first time they do such a thing. Anybody remembers the death of Pope John-Paul II? Over here, the mass-media felt the need to instruct us about everything Vatican related.

    My question: could I care less?

    Here’s the bottom line: many things happened in 10 years. Yes, the death of a child is a tragedy but how many childrens died in that decade? The truth is, they covering JonBenet Ramsey’s murder in perticular for the hype factor; the child is a cute little blonde child dressed in a pedophilliac “wet dream” suits and the murder investigation stalled for years. I can’t help to ask myself if the kid was a chubby latino boy, would he had received the same coverage?

  • Toubrouk

    This is what I have called a “Media-Blackout”. For the next few weeks, the mass-media will lose some substantial airtime by schooling us about everything related to JonBenet Ramsey’s murder.

    It’s not the first time they do such a thing. Anybody remembers the death of Pope John-Paul II? Over here, the mass-media felt the need to instruct us about everything Vatican related.

    My question: could I care less?

    Here’s the bottom line: many things happened in 10 years. Yes, the death of a child is a tragedy but how many childrens died in that decade? The truth is, they covering JonBenet Ramsey’s murder in perticular for the hype factor; the child is a cute little blonde child dressed in a pedophilliac “wet dream” suits and the murder investigation stalled for years. I can’t help to ask myself if the kid was a chubby latino boy, would he had received the same coverage?

  • Toubrouk

    This is what I have called a “Media-Blackout”. For the next few weeks, the mass-media will lose some substantial airtime by schooling us about everything related to JonBenet Ramsey’s murder.

    It’s not the first time they do such a thing. Anybody remembers the death of Pope John-Paul II? Over here, the mass-media felt the need to instruct us about everything Vatican related.

    My question: could I care less?

    Here’s the bottom line: many things happened in 10 years. Yes, the death of a child is a tragedy but how many childrens died in that decade? The truth is, they covering JonBenet Ramsey’s murder in perticular for the hype factor; the child is a cute little blonde child dressed in a pedophilliac “wet dream” suits and the murder investigation stalled for years. I can’t help to ask myself if the kid was a chubby latino boy, would he had received the same coverage?

  • KRS

    The reason the media continue to harp on the death of JonBenet Ramsey while simultaneously ignoring stories about inner minority youths who are murdered every day… is because that most of America is white. Same reason for the incessant coverage of the Natalie Holloway story.

    The assumption of network executives is that the country’s largest ethnic demographic group — whites — will “connect” with the stories based solely on the race of the victims, and that the audience will therefore see the revenue-generating commercials that are part of the newscast.

    It’s all about TV ratings, money, and racism. It’s sick.

  • KRS

    The reason the media continue to harp on the death of JonBenet Ramsey while simultaneously ignoring stories about inner minority youths who are murdered every day… is because that most of America is white. Same reason for the incessant coverage of the Natalie Holloway story.

    The assumption of network executives is that the country’s largest ethnic demographic group — whites — will “connect” with the stories based solely on the race of the victims, and that the audience will therefore see the revenue-generating commercials that are part of the newscast.

    It’s all about TV ratings, money, and racism. It’s sick.

  • KRS

    The reason the media continue to harp on the death of JonBenet Ramsey while simultaneously ignoring stories about inner minority youths who are murdered every day… is because that most of America is white. Same reason for the incessant coverage of the Natalie Holloway story.

    The assumption of network executives is that the country’s largest ethnic demographic group — whites — will “connect” with the stories based solely on the race of the victims, and that the audience will therefore see the revenue-generating commercials that are part of the newscast.

    It’s all about TV ratings, money, and racism. It’s sick.






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