It is Geraldo's turn, isn't it?

I mean, Greta van Facelift has had the Aruba thing going for, what, the last six or seven years...?

Or does it only seem like years?

I can't blame Greta - I'd milk an Aruba gig for all it was worth too...and then some.

I'd stay until they threatened to stop paying me.

So, I'm supposed to believe she is a model but blurry and fading pictures are the best they have?

Hey, if you guys don't like it, stop murdering women.

Well darn, no name's got yah. Might as well turn yourselves in, you murderers you. (Yeah, no other country has murders. Only in America!)

As we all know, Mao, Stalin, Hitler, and Pol Pot were all Americans.

I think Carlos Mencia said it well. "I want people to care when someone other than a good-looking white girl vanishes or is killed, otherwise guys like me are f*cked".

As soon as the price goes above $80 a barrel, we can start using thermal depolymerization.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization

Whooops! Posted that on the wrong thread.

As a reporter with an expense account, I think we need to focus on disappearances that occur in Aruba, Hawaii, Costal Belize, and hotel rooms in Geneva with $4000 dollar a night hookers.

"I want people to care when someone other than a good-looking white girl vanishes or is killed, otherwise guys like me are f*cked".

People don't care about the good-looking white girls either. It's merely a form of social illness in which a nasty voyeuristic tendency can be indulged without actually peering into a crime scene.

How anyone can be informed with the media we are stuck with is always a mystery to me. Well at least if the world comes to depend on trivial pursuit answers featuring missing people, high-profile murder trials , or Michael Jackson, I guess we can
rest easy.

That bar she went missing from, Ledo's, used to be my drinking spot for Monday Night Football.

While I was honeymooning in Aruba with my new wife one month ago, I commented to her that all the coverage of Natalie Holloway was absurd, as it could have just as easily happened in Columbus where we're from. Well, there you go.

This isn't the first young, pretty girl to go missing from High St near Ohio State campus. It can be a dangerous area for women.

Not another one.

Stories like that distract from the real news of the day.

Cut out the callousness. No person deserves to go missing. The point is not to stop publicizing missing persons, but to publicize all who are missing so that they can be found, or so that those predators that attack these people can be caught and immediately shot.

Cut out the callousness. No person deserves to go missing. The point is not to stop publicizing missing persons, but to publicize all who are missing so that they can be found, or so that those predators that attack these people can be caught and immediately shot.

I don't think anyone here wants to be callous. Okay, maybe a few of us.

Anyway, I know from my perspective, it annoys me that any pretty, missing girl can make the national news on a 24/7 cycle when the media cannot find the time to report on stories like what's going on in the Darfur region of the Sudan, for instance, or the oil-for-food scandal.

Harry:

Cut out the callousness. No person deserves to go missing. The point is not to stop publicizing missing persons, but to publicize all who are missing so that they can be found, or so that those predators that attack these people can be caught and immediately shot.

You're missing the point completely, which is all about ratings.

Network fatcats noticed this all over again for "immediate reportage" with OJ, that blondes and murder or vanishing blondes pumps ratings. In the 30's-60s you had pulp mags for blondes and crime, the soaps. Then came serial soaps and serial killer chic. Now we are in the phase of plain nobody women flocking to Greta, Oprah, or Paula as the selected pretty white girl/woman stories HAVE to be explored in saturation coverage or American women will turn off the TV.

Any attempt to throw more missing people, especially non-pretty women or males, into the 3 hour evening block and the daytime talk soaps would only confuse all the banal women out there bent on living life vicariously through Greta or Nancy Grace or Rosy the Bulldyke.

They'd turn off their TV rather than listening raptly on how "experts" comment for a whole hour in the significance of a flip flop found on an Aruban beach.

Even Fox reached a certain level of shame and searched for a missing black woman who was Laci-like pregnant so they could run her story. To be "fair and balanced". Even though she was unattractive and pregnant with her second out of wedlock child and her BF was a thug who cops had the goods on.

It was important for Fox to throw this mundane, black Figuroa woman up for 5 minutes every other day for the last week and say "see", we are not obsessed with white damsels in distress, before going back to "The New Laci" - Natalie Holloway and her hot, hot MILF for another 2 hours, repeating the pattern that has boosted Fox's ratings since 4 months ago, starting on April 6th.

No person deserves to go missing.

I wouldn't object to seeing Ted Kennedy's face on a milk carton...

It might have to go on a 2 gallon jug instead. That's a mighty big face.