tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27825798.post115600034861776392..comments2023-06-30T05:06:42.335-04:00Comments on My Life, at 24 Frames Per Second: Thank You, Mr. KarrKenji Fujishimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10635553450551818306noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27825798.post-1156050471168416582006-08-20T01:07:00.000-04:002006-08-20T01:07:00.000-04:00Anonymous: Well I'm glad someone else sees the abs...Anonymous: Well I'm glad someone else sees the absurd predictability of this new-minted barrage of JonBenet news coverage. I didn't want to be accused of knee-jerk cynicism toward the press or anything. I'm so critical that I wonder if there isn't some other ulterior motive for revving up attention for John Mark Karr's confession: simply as a diversion, to distract us from the important yet "too depressing" stuff going on elsewhere. Hmm, a conspiracy theory brewing...?Kenji Fujishimahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10635553450551818306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27825798.post-1156023283253760662006-08-19T17:34:00.000-04:002006-08-19T17:34:00.000-04:00In reference to the first part of your post, no, y...In reference to the first part of your post, no, you are not off base. The media always looks for sensational cases and the JonBenet case has been one for 10 years now. So now this guy comes along and of course he is big news for CNN and the others. Most likely he is just a mentally unstable screwball who craves attention; but the media is eating it up at this point. Its a slow time for news: the Middle East is settling down, the terrorist plot is past news, Castro did not die and there are no sensational trials or murders to report on. If JonBenet had been a 6 year old Black girl in a Newark Ghetto, no one would have heard of her. Blond white girls make news (Eliz Smart, Natalie Holloway, JonBenet). Celebrities make news (Mel Gibson, Brad Pitt, etc). White men who kill their wives make news (Scott Peterson) or Celebrites who do the same thing (OJ). So thats the way the media works, build it up, sensationalize it, and work it from every angle to hook the viewers on the story. It works so they keep doing the same thing. But, you are right--in the big picture, there are more important things to be talking about than this story.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com