I Wonder on a Wednesday
I woke up this morning thinking about Jill Carroll, the journalist who was captured in Iraq and who hasn’t been heard from now in weeks.
Is she okay? Is she alive? What hell must she be living through? Why oh why would she choose to go to Iraq and risk her life?
I often wonder who killed Jonbenet Ramsey.
Apparently no one did. Yet a little girl’s dead body was found in a basement wine cellar. Years have gone by and the name once in the news constantly is fading away. I still think about her. I still wish someone could have nailed the murderer. I still think I know who did it – but of course, my suspicions are only based on logic and not facts.
Natalee Holloway – her parents have created a cottage industry out of her disappearance.
Her mother seemed to spend more time on Fox News than deemed reasonable considering that was one place for sure, she wasn’t going to find her daughter. She swore she wouldn’t leave Aruba without her daughter…and of course she did -- and spent the next few months on every cable news show, talk show, or media outlet that would have her. I watched her get prettier as her hair was tamed, lips rouged, lashes blackened.
Then came the law suit…
Now there’s a book coming out, co-authored by Natalee's father, a film in the making and numerous speaking engagements for mom.
Hair! Make-up! Lights! Camera! Action! Autographs! Monetary settlements!
I guess we all mourn in different ways…
One dead child; two missing women.
A multitude of questions without answers.
I woke up this morning thinking about Jill Carroll, the journalist who was captured in Iraq and who hasn’t been heard from now in weeks.
Is she okay? Is she alive? What hell must she be living through? Why oh why would she choose to go to Iraq and risk her life?
I often wonder who killed Jonbenet Ramsey.
Apparently no one did. Yet a little girl’s dead body was found in a basement wine cellar. Years have gone by and the name once in the news constantly is fading away. I still think about her. I still wish someone could have nailed the murderer. I still think I know who did it – but of course, my suspicions are only based on logic and not facts.
Natalee Holloway – her parents have created a cottage industry out of her disappearance.
Her mother seemed to spend more time on Fox News than deemed reasonable considering that was one place for sure, she wasn’t going to find her daughter. She swore she wouldn’t leave Aruba without her daughter…and of course she did -- and spent the next few months on every cable news show, talk show, or media outlet that would have her. I watched her get prettier as her hair was tamed, lips rouged, lashes blackened.
Then came the law suit…
Now there’s a book coming out, co-authored by Natalee's father, a film in the making and numerous speaking engagements for mom.
Hair! Make-up! Lights! Camera! Action! Autographs! Monetary settlements!
I guess we all mourn in different ways…
One dead child; two missing women.
A multitude of questions without answers.
posted by mary bishop | 8:52 AM
7 Comments:
I still often wonder ab. JonBenet Ramsey too. So sad. What law suit are you talking ab. with Natalie Holloway?
HI Etchen, welcome!! (Quoted from Fox News since they are so trustworthy ahem! )Feb 17-- Joran van der Sloot and his father Paulus were served with papers in connection with a wrongful death suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court after they arrived in New York to take part in a television interview on Thursday.
The lawsuit, which seeks unspecified monetary damages, was filed by the parents of Natalee — Elizabeth Ann Twitty and Dave Edward Holloway.
interesting...
This is par for the "missing girl" course...if you are white and missing...the media covers it to a ridiculous amount...
They just did a special report about missing women of color on WGN news here in Chicago and you probably would NOT be surprised that there are a LOT of strnge missing women of color who go UN-NOTICED by the media!
Hmmm..not as many book deals or movie scripts in dead colored women..disgraceful and sad!
Bradley
The Egel Nest
Oh but of course, white blonde women are number one on the missing hit parade when actually it's young black/brown men who go missing most frequently.
Amazing how journalists can alter one's perception by their coverage or lack of coverage...more women die from lung cancer than breast cancer...but most people, women and men, think breast cancer is the leading killer of women.
Heart disease owns that title.
I wonder about Jon Benet Ramsey and the others as well. It seems sad their deaths were so public but justice, for lack of a better word, remains silent. Lights, Camera, Action, Attention, Silence, Loss that itsn't ever righted.
Michelle -- exactly - certain poster children for the dead or missing become generic terms -- like Kleenex for tissues...and then poof, another one comes along to displace the reigning queen.
What I hate is when you see normal families turn into media stars..and watch how they just can't give up the limelight and they become more important than the victim..Terri Schaivo's relatives are a good example of people who went from devoted relatives to media hounds.
Doc -- I call that drogging and I do it from time to time...much better than drunk internet shopping - which I've also done.
It's so much easier to to forget about the masses of poor, dying and diseased people if A - they have no names and B - they are "others" as in brown, black, gay, etc.
Cable news shows love to take white women and raise them up in King Kong's mighty hand like Fay Wray. Wave them around on primetime and count their advertising bucks...I guess white women sell. (Pre coffee posting which is just as bad as drinking and blogging...!)
Doc - and just as fictional as KK
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