{"id":10161,"date":"2006-08-22T07:25:34","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T14:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/08\/22\/summer-news-jumps-the-shark.html"},"modified":"2006-08-22T07:25:34","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T14:25:34","slug":"summer_news_jum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/22\/summer_news_jum.html","title":{"rendered":"Summer News Jumps the Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"

It happens late each summer. Things start getting boring, people are hot and tired — and, hey presto, the media jumps on some sort of Hot, Exciting Story that will Wow the Masses, usually without any sort of journalistic merit. In August-September 2001, for example, it was Sharks Eating People at the Beach!<\/em><\/p>\n

This summer, it’s JonBenet Ramsey Killer Captured (Maybe)!<\/em><\/p>\n

Okay, if the dude did it, I hope he fries. I don’t know, and nobody else (save, maybe, the Boulder DA, knows) what sort of evidence links the fellow in question to the crime. But what’s remarkable is not just the media paroxysms over the whole thing (in the Denver\/Boulder area, at least, but I suspect nationally, given what coverage I’ve seen), but how it’s reawakened all the dormant beliefs and conclusions that folks had about the case, from “Neener-neener, I told you the parents were innocent”
\nto “Gah, look at the DA’s office sucking up to cover for the family again.”<\/p>\n

Again, I have no idea where the truth lies, except that the various law enforcement organizations in the Boulder area that were involved in the investigation did a generally accepted poor job of it. But aside from the general creepiness of the whole Kiddie Beauty Pageant scene, this is hardly worth the media feeding frenzy going on<\/a>. Nor, given the dearth of released information from the Boulder DA’s office to date,
\nis it worth the space it’s being given in the blogosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It happens late each summer. 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